Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III, Cyme

Cyme, the largest city of Aeolis on the western Anatolian coast, continued striking Alexander-type tetradrachms well into the second century BC — long after the Macedonian kingdom itself had lost direct control of the region. These so-called posthumous issues were produced under the authority of local magistrates, whose names appear as control marks, granting numismatists a partial prosopography of civic administration in a period otherwise poorly documented. Price 1640 falls within the phase when Cyme was nominally under Seleucid or Pergamene influence, the city navigating carefully between competing powers following the Peace of Apamea in 188 BC.