Chalkon - types of Alexander III Tarsos

Tarsos operated as a major Macedonian administrative and military base during Alexander's campaigns, and the mint there continued striking in his name after his death in 323 BC under the authority of the regional successors managing Cilicia. The window for this issue is narrow — by 317 BC the Diadochi conflicts had reshuffled control of the region decisively enough to disrupt mint continuity.

Price 3009 is among the more readily attributable Tarsian bronzes, the mint having used distinctive control marks that separates its output from the broader flood of posthumous Alexander coinage struck across the eastern mints in this period.