Stater In the name of Alexander III, Sinope

Struck at Sinope — a Black Sea mint with deep Milesian roots — during the decades after Alexander's death, this stater belongs to the vast posthumous coinage that successor states and allied cities continued issuing under his name well into the third century. Sinope had been a significant Greek commercial hub long before Macedonian influence reached the Pontic coast, and its mint brought that mercantile infrastructure to the production of Alexandrine types. Price 1235 places this issue firmly in the later posthumous sequence, when the political fiction of Alexander's monetary authority had long outlasted any dynastic coherence.