Chalkon - Alexander III ME monogram

Alexander's bronze coinage was struck to supply his armies with low-denomination spending money during the campaigns east — the silver and gold got the headlines, but the chalkon paid the soldiers' daily expenses. Price 319 belongs to a well-documented series produced across multiple mints simultaneously, creating enough die variety that attribution to a single mint remains contested among specialists. The ME monogram has been tentatively linked to a Macedonian or northern Greek mint, though the evidence is not conclusive.