Stater - Alexander III Amphipolis

Alexander's gold staters were among the ancient world's most deliberately engineered monetary instruments — struck to a weight standard that aligned with the Attic system and accepted without friction from Greece to Persia to Egypt. The Amphipolis mint was the most prolific of all his gold-issuing facilities, fueled directly by the bullion flowing west from the sacked treasuries of Persepolis and Susa after 330 BC. That sudden influx of Persian gold is the reason this coinage exists in the quantities it does.

Price 168 places this issue among the early Amphipolis staters, before the series fragmented into the dozens of posthumous sub-types struck by the Diadochi.