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Drachm In the name of Alexander III; Magnesia ad Maeandrum
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Year | 319 BC - 305 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse description | Zeus Aëtophoros enthroned left on a backless throne (diphros), his body draped from the waist, holding an eagle perched on his outstretched right hand and a long sceptre upright in his raised left hand. Below the eagle, a dolphin swims upward. Beneath the throne, a monogram appears in the field. To the outer right, a filleted thyrsos is depicted vertically. The Greek legend ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ runs along the right field. The composition follows the canonical Alexander coinage reverse type established under Alexander III. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ |
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Struck at Magnesia ad Maeandrum during the turbulent decades following Alexander's death in 323 BC, this issue falls within the wars of the Diadochi — the prolonged, brutal contest among his successors that shattered the unified empire within a generation. Magnesia, an ancient Greek city on the Maeander River in Ionia, operated as one of dozens of mints authorized to continue striking in Alexander's name long after his death, a practice that sustained monetary continuity across a fragmenting realm.
Price 1993 remains the standard die study for posthumous Alexander coinage, cataloguing this mint's output by obverse and reverse die linkages.