Hoard Description
- Deposit: 324 B.C.-323 B.C.
- Discovery: 1829-1863
- Disposition: Istanbul 1800+ 430 (melted down or not identifiable); Vienna 5 Philips, 16 Alexanders; London 3; Cambridge 1, Paris 8; Brussels 1; Berlin 3; Sotheby June 1862 (Huber), 243-63; Dupré April 23, 1867, 317 (Pnytagoras); Sotheby Feb. 19, 1868, 343 (Cius); New York 1?; Stockholm 2
- Description: Stater: 6321+, Distater: 1+
Findspot
- Description: Saida (anc. Sidon), Phoenicia
- Falls Within: Sidon (Lebanon)
- Ancient Place: Sidon/Col. Aurelia Pia
- Type: inhabited places
References
- Reference: Müller, Alexandre, p. 300, note 62
- Reference: Waddington, RN 1865, pp. 3-25, illus.; Mélanges, pp. 331.
- Reference: Sharp, NC 1865, pp. 179-80; AJA 1900, p. 76
- Reference: Weckbecker, WNM 1865, pp. 5-11
- Reference: Huber, WNM 1867, pp. 2-4
- Reference: Six, NC 1885, p. 42; 1886, pp. 105-6; 1890, pp. 199 f.
- Reference: Wroth, NC 1895, p. 99
- Reference: Rouvier, REG 1899, p. 380
- Reference: Waddington, Recueil general I.2, p. 310
- Reference: Babelon, Traité II.2, col. 1489
- Reference: Head, HN2, p. 512
- Reference: Newell, Sidon-Ake, pp. 57-60
- Reference: Regling, ZfN 1931, p. 34; Zur Münzprägung der Brettier Janus 1 (1921), p. 83, no. 2
- Reference: Le Rider, Deux trésors, pp. 33-6
Notes
- Note: * The burial date is problematical, the exact composition of the hd. being uncertain. It is not clear from the account in the RN that all non-Alexanders really belong and there is the possibility of adulteration in the Alexander record. As Newell points out, the absence of issues of Philip III and the brilliant condition of Ace and Sidon coins of 324 B.C. suggest a burial of about that date. One Alexander of Babylon (Sotheby 252) was, however, struck after Philip's death; it may be intrusive. A detailed analysis of the hd. has been prepared by U. Westermark
