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.
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.