Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III

Mytilene continued striking Alexander-type tetradrachms well into the second century BC, long after the Macedonian kingdom itself had collapsed under Roman pressure at Pydna in 168 BC. These posthumous issues, produced by autonomous Greek cities asserting commercial continuity, were accepted across eastern Mediterranean trade networks precisely because the Alexander type remained trusted hard currency regardless of who struck it. Price 1687 places this emission squarely in the window before Roman intervention reshaped Aegean monetary habits.