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Stater In the name of Alexander III
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Year | 323 BC - 280 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing right, depicted in the Corinthian style with the helmet visor raised; the helmet crest is rendered in fine relief and the bowl is adorned with a coiled serpent motif. The facial features are modelled in the naturalistic Hellenistic tradition, with a strong profile and clearly defined cheekpiece framing the goddess's visage. The neck truncation is clean, and the field surrounding the effigy is smooth and unlettered. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Alexander died in Babylon in June 323 BC without a clear successor, and the immediate problem for his generals was coinage: an empire running on war needed continuous pay. The Macedonian mints — and dozens of eastern ones — simply kept striking in Alexander's name, sometimes for decades after his death. This piece falls within the Diadochi period, when former generals were carving up the empire while maintaining the fiction of unified Macedonian rule through shared coin types.
Price 2697 places this issue among the posthumous series. Müller 305 cross-attribution helps narrow the specific mint attribution, though the exact production site for many posthumous staters remains debated among specialists.