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Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III, Corinth
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Year | 310 BC - 290 BC |
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| Reference(s) | Price#679 Sicyon#26 , Müller#875 , Armenak#104 , BostonMFA#687 |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Sicyon |
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Corinth became one of the most active minting centers for posthumous Alexanders in the decade following the king's death in 323 BC, operating under the shifting authority of the Successors as Macedonian power fractured across the eastern Mediterranean. The city's strategic position on the isthmus made it both commercially vital and politically contested — control of its mint was, at various moments, a lever of legitimacy for whichever Diadoch held the Peloponnese.
Price 679 is a well-documented die pairing within the Corinthian posthumous series, placing this piece firmly in the early Successor period before Antigonus Gonatas consolidated Macedonian authority over Greek minting in the 270s.