I'm sorry to keep asking for the wisdom of the group, but I'm full of small questions that none of my books seem to clearly resolve, so I'm hoping someone out there knows the answer!

I had always understood that Alexander, during his lifetime, issued coins that showed his own image. Philip, during HIS lifetime, apparently always issued coins showing Zeus or Apollo on the obverse, and various Nike/victory or other figures on the reverse.

However, in reading up on this in the past couple of days, I think I may be wrong - that it was only after Alexander was dead that the successors themselves used his image on coins (modeled to look either like Herakles, or Apollo-Helios, usually).

Since putting his own face on coinage hitherto reserved for the gods might be considered hubristic, does anyone have a clear answer on this one?