Stater In the name of Alexander III, Sardes

Struck at Sardes in the immediate aftermath of Alexander's death in 323 BC, this issue falls within the transitional period when his generals — the Diadochi — were still nominally administering the empire in the name of the Argead dynasty. Coins continued to be struck in Alexander's name not out of loyalty but out of monetary necessity; his types had become the dominant trade currency across the eastern Mediterranean and breaking from them would have undermined market confidence immediately.

Price 2609 is attributed to the Sardes mint based on specific control marks. Sardes had been a Persian satrapal capital before Alexander took it in 334 BC, and its mint infrastructure was inherited almost intact from the Achaemenids.