Antigonos I Monophthalmos Appoints Peithon as Satrap of Babylon

241, Lot: 48. Estimate $300. Sold for $725. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos I Monophthalmos. As Strategos of Asia, 320-306/5 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 17.07 g, 6h). Babylon mint. Struck under Peithon, circa 315-311 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram in wreath in left field, monogram in circle below throne. Price 3734. Good VF, lightly toned, minor metal flaw in ear.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 81 (20 May 2009), lot 354.

In 315 BC, Antigonos I Monophthalmos forced Seleukos I to flee from his satrapy in Babylon and replaced him with Peithon, a Macedonian who had served under Alexander III as satrap of southern India.