12. Periods of Production
• 333-324: Essentially those coinages deemed by Price to be ‘lifetime’ (on
the low chronology)
• 323-301: The period of the immediate successors to Alexander down just
past the great declarations of kingship to the Battle of Ipsos
• 300-282 From Ipsos to the settlement of the world following the Battle of
Corupedium in 281
• 281-224: From Corupedium to the accession of Antiochus III in the east,
and to just before the outbreak of the Social War in Greece
• 223-191: The reign of Antiochus III to the battle of Magnesia and the
removal of Antiochus from Asia Minor
• 190-126: The post-Apameia period in Asia Minor and the last Alexanders
of the Seleucid kingdom, Macedon and Greece
• 125-70: The continuation of production of the Black Sea mints down to
their closure and the end of Alexander coinage c. 70 BC.
13. Numbers of types by metal by period
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
333-324 323-301 300-282 281-224 223-191 190-126 125-70
AR
AU
AE
14. Types vs. specimens
Type nos. from Price/Pella; hoard figures from Duyrat (2005), Tbl. 10
333-324 (4drs) 4dr. Hoards
Macedon
Greece
Black Sea
W. Asia Minor
S Asia Minor
Cyprus
Syria & Phoenicia
The East
Egypt & Cyrenaica
15. Numbers of types by metal by period
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
333-324 323-301 300-282 281-224 223-191 190-126 125-70
AR
AU
AE
16. Numbers of types by metal
by period/Year
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
333-324 323-301 300-282 281-224 223-191 190-126 125-70
AR
AU
AE
Lifetime Posthumous
23. Types of Alexander coinage:
Agency and Purpose
Alexanders
Lifetime
Macedonian Imperial
Posthumous
Royal
Continuation Imitative
Civic
Royal civic Civic civic=