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 a posthumous issue produced under Seleucid administration — not a Macedonian royal mint. By the late 180s BC, the Seleucid empire was hemorrhaging territory following Antiochus III's catastrophic defeat by Rome at Magnesia in 190 BC, and local mints across Asia Minor were pressed back into service partly to finance the punishing indemnity imposed by the Treaty of Apamea. Price 2907 is identifiable by its specific monogram combination placing it firmly within the Aspendus sequence.