Stater - Philip III In the name of Alexander III, Miletus

Struck in the name of Alexander the Great but issued under Philip III Arrhidaeus, Alexander's half-brother and nominal successor, this coin reflects the political fiction maintained after Alexander's death in 323 BC — that continuity of the empire could be preserved through a cognitively disabled figurehead while the Diadochi maneuvered for real power. Miletus, a major Aegean port recaptured from Persian control by Alexander in 334 BC, remained a productive mint into the successor period. Philip III was murdered on Olympias's orders in 319 BC, closing the window for this issue.