Stater - Alexander III Aegae

Price 197 places this stater among the early Aegae issues struck under Alexander's own authority, beginning the year he took the Macedonian throne after Philip II's assassination at that same city. Aegae was the ancient dynastic capital — Pella had long overtaken it politically — but its mint carried symbolic weight precisely because of that history. Production at Aegae was relatively brief; the bulk of Alexander's gold coinage shifted rapidly to more strategically positioned mints as the campaigns moved east.

The Persian treasury at Persepolis, captured in 330 BC, flooded Alexander's war chest with bullion on a scale that transformed Macedonian coinage output entirely. Aegae's role was already diminished well before that windfall.