Die frühesten Tetradrachmen Alexanders des Großen mit dem Adler, ihre Herkunft und Entstehungszeit

Abstract

The subject is a rare tetradrachm with a head of Zeus on the obverse and an eagle with the inscription ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ on the reverse, the so-called eagle type, surviving today in only five specimens. For almost a century it has drawn scholarly interest, and for just as long its attribution has been unsettled: it has been taken partly for a posthumous satrapal issue from the southernmost parts of the empire, partly for Alexander's earliest coinage, struck in Macedonia immediately after the death of Philip II. Imhoof-Blumer argued for the second reading, Head, Newell, Hill, Whitehead and Babelon for an eastern mint, most probably in India. The paper, a congress lecture of 1967, begins with a survey of that scholarship.

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Suggested citation

Pegan, Efrem Marcel: Die frühesten Tetradrachmen Alexanders des Großen mit dem Adler, ihre Herkunft und Entstehungszeit. In: Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte 18 (1968), pp. 99–111, Tf.10-12.

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