Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III

Rhodes issued posthumous Alexander tetradrachms in its own name during a period of acute military pressure — the island had endured a catastrophic earthquake around 226 BC and, more urgently by this decade, was navigating the threat posed by Philip V of Macedon and Antiochus III simultaneously. Rhodian civic coinage of this period reflects a deliberate policy of aligning with Alexandrine monetary traditions to facilitate trade across the eastern Aegean while the city-state was actively courting Roman intervention, which arrived formally at the conclusion of the First Macedonian conflict.

Ashton's die study places this issue within a tightly defined sequence. The Price and HGC attributions confirm Rhodian civic control over the striking authority rather than a satrap or dynast.