ABSTRACT
A small number of representations of Alexander during his lifetime survive in sculpture, but the use of his likeness on coins is mostly a posthumous phenomenon. Soon after the king’s death in 323 bc new coin-types issued by his successors rival Alexander’s own money of the Herakles/Zeus and Athena/ Nike-types (plate 1). Coins of Ptolemy, Lysimachos and Seleukos (plates 4-5; 7-8) present Alexander, now god and source of legitimacy for these very rulers, following Greek iconographic traditions.
