Drachm In the name of Alexander III, Colophon

Colophon, one of the twelve Ionian cities on the Aegean coast of Asia Minor, operated as a mint issuing Alexander-type coinage in the years following the king's death in 323 BC — part of the vast posthumous output that continued under the Diadochi as each successor sought legitimacy through association with the Macedonian conqueror. Price 1805 falls within the period of Antigonus Monophthalmus's dominance over western Asia Minor, meaning this coin almost certainly circulated in the political and military machinery of his campaigns before Ipsus in 301 BC ended his ambitions permanently.