Struck at Babylon following Alexander's capture of the city in 331 BC, this didrachm belongs to a mint that had not produced Greek-style coinage before his arrival. The Babylonian mint was among the most productive of Alexander's eastern campaign, tasked with converting the vast Achaemenid silver reserves — looted from Persepolis and Susa — into Macedonian coinage at a scale the western mints could not approach alone.
Price 3582 places this issue within the early Babylonian sequence, predating the administrative reorganization of the mint that followed Antipater's reinforcements in 325 BC.
Struck at Babylon following Alexander's capture of the city in 331 BC, this didrachm belongs to a mint that had not produced Greek-style coinage before his arrival. The Babylonian mint was among the most productive of Alexander's eastern campaign, tasked with converting the vast Achaemenid silver reserves — looted from Persepolis and Susa — into Macedonian coinage at a scale the western mints could not approach alone.
Price 3582 places this issue within the early Babylonian sequence, predating the administrative reorganization of the mint that followed Antipater's reinforcements in 325 BC.