Lot 2318

Description

Macedon, Kingdom of, Alexander III, (336-323 B.C.), silver tetradrachm, (25.49 g total weight), Babylon Mint, posthumous issue under Seleucus I Nicator, ca. 311-305 B.C., obv. head of Herakles to right wearing lion skin with dotted border, rev. Zeus seated on throne to left, eagle in outstretched hand, wreath to left, MI under throne, in wreath HYP monogram, below traces of **BASILEWS* to right **ALEXANDR[OU]*, (cf.S.6713, Price 3746, BMC 3746a-d, Armenak hoard 136-137), in a (9ct?) gold mount as a brooch, hallmarked WW. Very fine.

Ex D.G.L. Worland Collection.