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Drachm In the name of Alexander III, Abydos
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Year | 310 BC - 301 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Abydos |
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Abydos, positioned at the narrowest crossing of the Hellespont, was among the mints that struck in Alexander's name well after his death in 323 BC, as his successors competed to control the coinage infrastructure of the former empire. This issue falls within the period of the Wars of the Diadochi, when maintaining Alexander's monetary types was a deliberate political act — a claim to legitimacy rather than mere inertia. Price 1551 places this emission among the posthumous Abydene issues tied to the administration of the region under shifting Antigonid and later Lysimachean control.