Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III, Erythrai

Struck at Erythrai on the Ionian coast, this posthumous Alexander tetradrachm belongs to a civic minting tradition that continued for over a century after Alexander's death in 323 BC. The city issued in his name not out of loyalty to any Macedonian successor but because the Alexander type had become the dominant trade currency of the eastern Aegean — rejecting it would have been commercial suicide. The Mektepini reference ties this specifically to a die study of the local series, distinguishing Erythraean output from the flood of similar posthumous issues produced across Asia Minor during the same decades.