Tetradrachm - Alexander III Pella

Price 232 places this issue among the earlier Pella mint productions under Alexander himself, before the posthumous flood of tetradrachms struck by his successors across dozens of mints from Egypt to Bactria. The Pella mint held a particular administrative significance — it was the Macedonian royal seat, and coins struck there carried an institutional weight that regional satrapal mints could not replicate.

Alexander's monetary reforms unified a fragmented Greek world onto a single Attic-weight silver standard, largely financed by the captured Achaemenid treasuries at Persepolis and Susa, estimated at some 180,000 talents of bullion.