Drachm In the name of Alexander III, Lampsakos

Struck at Lampsakos on the Hellespont in the years immediately following Alexander's death in Babylon, this issue falls within the chaotic first phase of the Wars of the Diadochi, when his generals were still nominally minting in his name while fighting over the empire he left without a designated heir. Lampsakos was a strategically vital mint — controlling access between the Aegean and the Black Sea — and changed hands more than once during these conflicts.

Price 1372 is identifiable by its specific control marks, the details that separate one Lampsacene emission from another in an otherwise visually uniform series.