Drachm In the name of Alexander III, Lampsakos

Struck at Lampsakos on the southern shore of the Hellespont, this issue belongs to the enormous posthumous coinage produced in Alexander's name following his death in Babylon in 323 BC. Lampsakos was a strategically critical mint — controlling the crossing point between Europe and Asia — and continued striking in Alexander's name under the successive control of his warring generals during the early Diadochi period. Price 1375 is identifiable by its specific mint control marks, the details of which Marin Price catalogued from die studies in his 1991 corpus.