Tetradrachm - Alexander III Damascus

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.