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.
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.