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Stater - Alexander III Side
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Year | 336 BC - 323 BC |
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| Value | Gold Stater (20) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Alexander's gold staters were struck in enormous quantities to pay his armies during the Persian campaigns, funded almost entirely by the treasury seized at Persepolis and Susa — estimated at somewhere between 120,000 and 180,000 talents of silver equivalent. The Macedonian mint at Amphipolis handled the bulk of early production, though output spread across a network of traveling and newly established mints as the conquest pushed east.
Price 2957 places this piece within the Amphipolis sequence. Dies were cut at a pace that leaves meaningful variation across the series, and careful comparison against the Price corpus remains the only reliable method for pinning down a specific emission.