Stater In the name of Alexander III, Amphipolis

Price 181 places this stater among the early post-reform issues from Amphipolis, the mint Alexander relied on most heavily to fund his eastern campaigns. By 325 BC the logistics of paying a Macedonian army deep in Asia demanded extraordinary output — Amphipolis, drawing on Thracian and Pangaean gold sources, was the principal engine of that supply. The 319 BC terminus reflects the post-Alexander turbulence: Amphipolis fell under the control of competing successors, and Antipater's death that year effectively ended this issue's administrative continuity.