Struck at Sinope, a major Black Sea port city, these posthumous Alexander staters were produced well after the conqueror's death in 323 BC — part of a broader phenomenon in which mints across the former empire continued issuing coins in Alexander's name for generations, partly for commercial convenience and partly because the coinage had become an internationally trusted trade currency throughout the eastern Mediterranean and Pontic regions. By the early 2nd century, Sinope was operating under increasing Pontic pressure, eventually falling to Mithridates IV around 183 BC.
Price 1224 is identified by a specific monogram control mark linking it to Sinopean civic administration during this transitional period.
Struck at Sinope, a major Black Sea port city, these posthumous Alexander staters were produced well after the conqueror's death in 323 BC — part of a broader phenomenon in which mints across the former empire continued issuing coins in Alexander's name for generations, partly for commercial convenience and partly because the coinage had become an internationally trusted trade currency throughout the eastern Mediterranean and Pontic regions. By the early 2nd century, Sinope was operating under increasing Pontic pressure, eventually falling to Mithridates IV around 183 BC.
Price 1224 is identified by a specific monogram control mark linking it to Sinopean civic administration during this transitional period.