Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III

Struck posthumously in Alexander's name, this issue belongs to the long tradition of successor mints exploiting his image and monetary standard to assert legitimacy after his death in 323 BC. Price 815 places it within the output of a specific Macedonian or regional mint operating under the Diadochi — the generals who carved up the empire and fought one another across three generations. The type continued circulating because the Attic weight standard it embodied was trusted from Egypt to Bactria, making political attribution secondary to economic function.