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Drachm In the name of Alexander III, Temnos
| Issuer | Mint of Temnos |
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| Year | 188 BC - 170 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ (Translation: Alexander (III, the Great)) |
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| Mintage | ND (188 BC - 170 BC) |
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Temnos was a small Aeolian city on the Hermos River, and its posthumous Alexander coinage — struck well over a century after the king's death — reflects the extraordinary durability of his monetary brand across the Hellenistic world. By the late third and early second centuries BC, dozens of mints from Greece to Bactria were issuing coins in Alexander's name not out of reverence but because the type was simply trusted in trade. Price 1684 is attributed to Temnos on the basis of its distinctive ethnic and control marks rather than any documentary record of the mint's authorization.