Tetradrachm - Alexander III Tarsos

Struck at Tarsos during Alexander's eastern campaigns, this issue belongs to the final, most prolific phase of his mint output — production at eastern mints was running at extraordinary volume to pay the Macedonian army and its vast network of mercenaries and allied troops. Tarsos had been a functioning mint under Persian satrapal authority before Alexander seized it in 333 BC, and he simply repurposed the existing infrastructure.

Price 3034 places this firmly in the late Tarsos sequence. The city would continue striking posthumous Alexanders well into the Diadoch period.