By Karsten Dahmen
This amazing introductory survey collects, offers and examines, for the first actual time, the photographs and representations of Alexander the good at the historical cash of the Greek and Roman period.
From 320 BC to advert four hundred, Karsten Dahmen examines not just Alexander’s personal coinage and the posthumous coinages of his successors, but in addition the re-use of his snapshot through rulers from the Greek international and the Roman empire, to overdue antiquity.
Also together with numismatic fabric that exceeds all prior released works, and well-illustrated, this old survey brings Alexander and his legacy to life.
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In contrast to earlier examples, the hair is now represented not by smaller, vividly curled locks but by bigger and much less wavy strands. The addition of a goat serves as the city’s badge and emphasises the link with the founding legend. The next appearance of Alexander in Aigeai does not take place until the time of Macrinus and then presumably as a part of this city’s attempts to show loyalty to the new emperor and possibly to gain privileges in return. There are three examples of Alexander’s conventional diademed portrait combined with one of Macrinus148 or more commonly Diadumenian149 on the obverse.
We might therefore prefer a middle or late Hellenistic statue-type of an Alexander holding spear and thunderbolt, the icon of the invincible god,174 inspiring the creation of such a representation in Nikaia. But why does Alexander appear in Nikaia anyway? 177 When looking for an explanation we should keep in mind the rivalry between communities in the Greek East under the empire. 178 Nikaia may simply have benefited from its counterpart’s misfortune. Besides official acclamations and expressions of loyalty towards the imperial house on civic coins from this period,179 representing Alexander and the emperor Commodus together could be understood as a less obvious, but still powerful and flattering vehicle of civic ‘foreign’ politics.
Considering this time frame there are only a few alternatives which could account for the minting of these coins. Alexander never played any role in Seleukos’ coinage except in these years around 300 bc: Seleukos himself embarked on a campaign on the frontiers of India in 307–302 bc following in Alexander’s footsteps. 77 It is possible that the fifth anniversary of this campaign (or of Seleukos’ return) created a convenient opportunity for remembering Seleukos’ exploits in this campaign by drawing parallels to Alexander,78 turning the latter into a token of success and divine support.