Tetradrachm - Alexander III Amphipolis

Price 48 is among the earliest lifetime issues from the Amphipolis mint, struck while Alexander was still consolidating control after Philip II's assassination in 336 BC. Amphipolis was Macedonia's most productive silver mint throughout the campaign years, fed by the rich mines of the Pangaion hills that Philip had seized decades earlier. The city's strategic position on the Strymon River made it the logical administrative hub for funding mobilization eastward.

Martin Price's 1991 corpus remains the definitive die study for this series. Specimens attributable to Price 48 turn up with some regularity in Balkan hoard material.