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Tetradrachm - Antigonus In the name of Alexander III
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Year | 320 BC - 280 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (320 BC - 280 BC) |
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Antigonus I Monophthalmus ("the One-Eyed") issued these tetradrachms in Alexander's name as a deliberate political act — maintaining the fiction of Macedonian unity long after Alexander's death in 323 BC, when legitimacy still required invoking the conqueror's authority rather than claiming one's own. Antigonus was among the most aggressive of the Diadochi in exploiting this strategy, and his coinage reflects a calculated refusal to break with Alexandrine iconographic tradition even as he carved out control of Asia Minor and Syria.
Price 1173-1176 covers issues from mints under Antigonid control during the wars of the successors, a period of near-constant military campaigning that kept these coins in hard circulation.