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Tetradrachm - Alexander III Damascus
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Year | 330 BC - 320 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Damascus Mint |
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Damascus came under Macedonian control following Alexander's campaign through the Levant in 333–332 BC, and the mint there was put to work almost immediately — largely to pay troops rather than to assert administrative control. The Damascus issues within the Alexander tetradrachm series are distinguished by their lifetime or near-lifetime attribution, placing them among the earliest stratified emissions of what would become the most widely imitated coin type in the ancient world.
Price 3202 sits within a tightly sequenced group identified through die linkage studies. Martin Price's 1991 corpus remains the foundational reference, though subsequent scholarship has refined the chronology of the Damascus mint's output considerably.