Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III, Pella

By 280 BC, Alexander had been dead for over four decades, yet Macedonian mints continued striking tetradrachms in his name — a monetary convention that outlasted his empire, his successors, and most of the dynasties that carved up his conquests. These posthumous issues from Pella were produced under the Antigonid kingdom, which had only recently consolidated control of Macedonia after the catastrophic Battle of Ipsus in 301 BC and the subsequent power struggles. Price 602 is among the better-documented posthumous types, cross-referenced in Müller's corpus, placing it within a well-attested Pella sequence.