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Stater In the name of Alexander III, Callatis
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Year | 250 BC - 225 BC |
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| Value | Gold Stater (20) |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing right, rendered in high relief with fine engraving characteristic of the Alexandrine coinage tradition. The goddess wears a Corinthian helmet pushed back on her head, its bowl adorned with a prominent crest and a decorative serpent coiling along the cheekpiece. Her hair falls in carefully rendered wavy locks beneath the helmet's rim, and her facial features — almond eye, aquiline nose, and defined lips — display a dignified, idealized profile. The neck is adorned with a beaded necklace, visible at the truncation. The flan is broad and slightly irregular, with no visible field legend on the obverse. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Callatis, a Milesian colony on the Black Sea coast in modern Romania, struck posthumous Alexander staters well into the third century BC as a practical trading currency for the Pontic grain routes — not as tribute to a dead king. Price 914 is among the later posthumous issues, produced roughly a generation after Alexander's death, when his monetary types had simply become the dominant commercial standard across the eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea littoral.
The Callatian mint is identified by its ethnic control marks. Output was modest compared to the great Macedonian production centers.