Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III, Amphipolis

Amphipolis served as the primary mint for posthumous Alexanders throughout the late 4th and early 3rd centuries BC, producing a disproportionate volume of the coinage that funded the wars of the Diadochi. Price 481 falls within the output attributed to the period of Cassander's control of Macedonia, when the mint was operating under sustained pressure to finance ongoing campaigns against Antigonus and later Demetrius Poliorcetes. Cassander never struck in his own name in Macedonia — politically, Alexander's types remained the only acceptable currency of legitimacy.