Trakya Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi (Dec 2023)
A POSTHUMOUS COIN OF ALEXANDER III FROM ALANYA ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUM: PRICE 645 (ASTIBUS?, PAIONIA)
Abstract
During the research of the present author in the archeology museum of the Alanya district, where Korakesion, one of the eastern cities of the ancient Pamphylia region, is located, 115 regal Macedonian coins have been identified. 69 of them are silver issues. Among them, one specimen from Paionia region of Balkan Peninsula is notably interesting. This is the specimen of an emission among the coins dated to the first quarter of the 3rd century BC and thought to have been minted by Audoleon, the king of Paionia. As it carries the basic silver coin type of Alexander III and bear the king’s name, it is a posthumous silver coin. We also know specimens of this coin in hoards from Asia Minor. The circulation of this coin in Cilicia, which is quite far from the territory where it was minted, must be related to the Syrian wars, which caused the region to change hands between the Ptolemies and Seleucids during the 3rd century BC.
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