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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 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Zeus Aëtophoros enthroned left on a low stool-throne, his robes draped about his lower body. His outstretched right hand supports an eagle with spread wings, while his left hand grasps a long sceptre. In the left field, a wreath serves as a mint control symbol; below the throne, the secondary control mark Δ (delta) is visible. The Greek legend ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ runs along the right field, identifying the coin as struck in the name of King Alexander. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ |
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Struck at Corinth in the two decades following Alexander's death in 323 BC, this issue belongs to the vast posthumous coinage produced across the fragmenting empire — not as a political fiction, but because Alexander's types had become the dominant trade currency of the eastern Mediterranean and abandoning them would have been commercial suicide. Corinth's mint was operating under the shifting authority of the Antigonid and later Diadochi factions contesting control of mainland Greece during this period.
Price 673 places this among a well-documented Corinthian sequence. The Sicyon cross-reference reflects the numismatic debate over attributing certain Peloponnesian issues, where mint attribution has historically relied on die linkage rather than any explicit mint marks.