Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III, Cyme

Struck at Cyme in Aeolis — a Greek city on the Aegean coast of what is now western Turkey — this is a posthumous issue produced well over a century after Alexander's death in 323 BC. By the early second century, Cyme was operating under Seleucid influence, and the continued use of Alexander's types served a practical monetary purpose: the coinage was trusted across the eastern Mediterranean in ways that local issues simply were not. Price 1626 is identified by its specific monogram control marks, which remain the primary tool for attributing these widely-imitated types to individual minting authorities.