274, Lot: 73. Estimate $200. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.24 g, 1h). Babylon mint. Struck under Stamenes or Archon, circa 324/3 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; sickle in left field, monogram and M below throne. Price 3622. Good VF, toned, some light marks, reverse slightly double struck.

Ex Stack’s (8-9 October 1955), lot 1051.

A desirable combination of mint and date; struck around the time of Alexander’s death in the city in which he died.