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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheRed, post: 3122656, member: 87080&quot;]After the death of Alexander in 323 a succession crisis ensued.&nbsp; Alexander&#039;s half-brother Arrhidaeus was crowned king and assumed the name Philip, making him Philip III of Macedon.&nbsp; Roxana, Alexander&#039;s wife, was also pregnant, and when she gave birth to boy he was crowned Alexander IV a few months later.&nbsp; Because Philip III (Arrhidaeus) was mentally disabled and Alexander IV was an infant a regency was established with one of Alexander&#039;s generals, Perdiccas, as regent.&nbsp; While Philip III was nominal king of Macedon, and some of the coinage named him as such, he was little more than a pawn in the struggle for power, and many of the men that were fighting for power reverted back to naming Alexander on their coins before eventually taking the title for themselves around 305 BC.&nbsp; What you end up with is coins being minted in the name of Philip III and in Alexander&#039;s name while Philip was still co-king of Macedon.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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