Drachm In the name of Alexander III, Abydos

Abydos, positioned at the narrowest crossing of the Hellespont, was among the cities that continued striking Alexander-type coinage well after his death in 323 BC, during the fractious wars of the Diadochi. Price 1554 places this issue within the early Successor period, when control of the Hellespont crossing was strategically critical — Lysimachus held the region through much of this window, and civic or semi-autonomous minting under his authority kept the Alexander types circulating. The choice to maintain the conqueror's name on coinage was political convenience as much as anything else.