Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III, Babylon

Babylon was one of Alexander's primary minting centers during his lifetime and continued striking in his name immediately after his death in June 323 BC. The years covered by this issue coincide almost exactly with the chaos of the First Diadoch War — the opening struggle among his successors — during which Babylon passed between the control of Perdiccas, then Antipater, and ultimately Seleucus. Coins continued to flow from the mint regardless of who held the city, partly because paying troops could not wait for political settlements.

Price 3692 is attributable to the post-Alexander Babylon sequence through specific die linkage studies conducted by Martin Price in his 1991 corpus.