205, Lot: 70. Estimate $150. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 16.89 g, 3h). Babylon mint. Lifetime issue, struck circa 325-323 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; grape bunch in left field; below throne, monogram above M. Price 3642. VF.

From the latest of Alexander’s lifetime issues struck at Babylon, the city in which he died.