Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III; Aspendus

Struck at Aspendus in Pamphylia roughly a century and a half after Alexander's death, this is one of the posthumous issues that continued circulating under his name long after the Macedonian kingdom itself had ceased to exist as a coherent political entity. By the early second century BC, "Alexander coinage" had become a trusted trade currency across the eastern Mediterranean — civic mints like Aspendus perpetuated the type not out of dynastic loyalty but commercial pragmatism. Müller 1221 places this among the later Aspendian output, distinguishable from earlier issues by subtle die characteristics rather than any official monetary authority.