Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III

Methymna, on the northern coast of Lesbos, was one of the few cities permitted to strike posthumous Alexanders in its own name — a distinction that reflects the city's political alignment during the wars of the Diadochi rather than any special minting privilege. These issues postdate Alexander's death by over a century, struck during a period when the Alexander-type tetradrachm had become the dominant trade currency across the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean, and civic mints issued them largely to participate in that commercial network.

Price 1692 is distinguished by its specific monogram control marks, which anchor it to the Methymna mint sequence documented by Martin Price in his 1991 corpus.