Drachm In the name of Alexander III, Lampsakos

Struck at Lampsakos on the Hellespont following Alexander's death in 323 BC, this issue belongs to the coinage produced under the Diadochi as they fought to control — and legitimize themselves through — the Macedonian name. Lampsakos was a strategically vital mint given its position controlling Hellespontine trade routes, and production there continued well into the wars of the successors. Price 1398 places this emission within a tightly defined group distinguished by specific control marks, the work of Margaret Thompson's foundational die studies.