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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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| Reverse description | Nike, the goddess of victory, standing facing with head turned to left and wings fully spread behind her; in her extended right hand she holds a laurel wreath, while her left hand bears a stylis (a ship's steering oar or sternpost fitting), emblematic of naval victory. The inscription ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ appears in the right field, reading downward in Greek characters, identifying the issue as struck in the name of Alexander. A bunch of grapes on a stalk occupies the left field as a mint control symbol, aiding attribution to a specific workshop within the posthumous series. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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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.