With the exception of Ptolemaïc Egypt, the Macedonian kingdoms followed
in their coinage that of Alexander. Money was for a long while largely
struck with Alexander's own image and superscription; the gold and
silver coined in the names of Antigonid and Seleucid kings and by the
minor principalities of Asia, kept to the Attic standard which Alexander
had established. Only in Egypt Ptolemy I. adopted, at first the Rhodian,
and afterwards the Phoenician, standard, and on this latter standard the
Ptolemaïc money was struck during the subsequent centuries. Money was
also struck in their own name by the cities in the several dynasties'
spheres of power, but in most cases only bronze or small silver for
local use. Corinth, however, was allowed to go on striking staters under
Antigonus Gonatas; Ephesus, Cos and the greater cities of Phoenicia
retained their right of coinage under Seleucid or Ptolemaïc supremacy.