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Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III, Pella
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Year | 325 BC - 315 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | Zeus Aëtophoros seated left on a throne with ornate legs, his upper body nude and draped from the waist, holding a long scepter upright in his left hand and an eagle perched on his extended right hand. The legend ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ runs downward along the right field. The composition is set within a dotted border, with the throne rendered in precise detail including cross-bar stretchers beneath the seat. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Price 241 places this issue among the earlier Pella tetradrachms struck in Alexander's name, beginning during his lifetime and continuing under the regency administrations following his death in 323 BC. The Pella mint was the Argead heartland — the royal seat — and its output during this window reflects the enormous logistical machinery Alexander built to pay his armies, drawing on bullion looted from the Persian treasuries at Persepolis and Susa. Estimates suggest those Persian reserves amounted to something near 180,000 talents of silver and gold, an influx so vast it fundamentally altered coin production across the eastern Mediterranean.
Dies from this period at Pella show closer stylistic affinity to the original Lysippan workshop conventions than later successor issues drifting toward regional interpretations.