Stater In the name of Alexander III, Tyre

Struck at Tyre following Alexander's death, this issue belongs to the long posthumous series produced by his successors who continued using his types to maintain commercial credibility across the eastern Mediterranean. Tyre itself had been razed and its population enslaved or sold by Alexander in 332 BC after a seven-month siege — one of the most brutal episodes of his entire campaign. That the mint reopened under Macedonian authority within a generation, striking gold in his name, is a detail the catalog references alone cannot convey.

Price 3530 places this among the later Tyrian output, when Ptolemy I controlled the city.