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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Satrapy of Babylon (Alexandrian Empire in Persia (330 BC - 305 BC)) |
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| Year | 328 BC - 311 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (328 BC - 311 BC) |
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Babylon became Alexander's administrative capital after 330 BC, and the mint there was among the most productive of the eastern satrapies, striking heavily to fund ongoing campaigns into Bactria and India. After Alexander's death in Babylon in 323 BC, the city remained strategically critical through the Wars of the Diadochi, and coinage continued under Perdiccas and later Seleucus before Antigonus seized the satrapy in 315 BC. The extended date range of this issue spans some of the most violently contested succession struggles of the ancient world.