Tetradrachm - Cassander In the name of Alexander III; Uranopolis

Uranopolis — "City of Heaven" — was founded by Alexarchus, the eccentric brother of Cassander, who reportedly invented his own language and styled himself a citizen of the cosmos rather than Macedonia. Coinage struck there in Alexander's name during Cassander's regency served a dual political purpose: maintaining the fiction of Argead continuity while consolidating Cassander's grip on a fractious kingdom still nominally loyal to a dead conqueror's memory. Alexarchus himself is one of antiquity's more bizarre footnotes — Athenaeus preserves fragments of his impenetrable correspondence, which contemporaries apparently found unintelligible.