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Stater In the name of Alexander III, Sardes
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Year | 323 BC - 319 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Nike, the winged goddess of victory, stands facing left in full figure, her large feathered wings spread upward and outward behind her. She holds a wreath extended in her right hand and a stylis (naval sceptre) in her left, with a globule visible at her feet. The legend ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ runs to the right along the reverse field, with the control mark TI to the left beneath the wing, identifying this issue to the Sardes mint under the posthumous coinage of Alexander III. The style and control marks correspond to Price 2623. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ TI |
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Struck at Sardes in the years immediately following Alexander's death in Babylon, this stater falls within the transitional output administered by Menander, the satrap who held the mint during the early Diadochi period. Production continued under Alexander's name — as it did across most mints — because no successor had yet consolidated enough authority to issue in his own right. The political fiction of continuity was monetarily enforced.
Price 2623 is identified by its specific monogram pairing. Sardes remained one of the more prolific western Anatolian mints through this period, drawing on Lydian bullion networks that long predated Macedonian control.