338, Lot: 124. Estimate $200. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PERSIA, Alexandrine Empire. Mazaios. Satrap of Babylon, circa 331-328 BC. AR Stater – Double Shekel (22mm, 12.58 g, 1h). Babylon mint. Baaltars seated left, holding scepter; large pellet in left field / Lion left; “MZDI” (=Mazaios) above. Nicolet-Pierre M7 var. (no pellet, “BLTRZ” in right field of obv.); SNG Copenhagen 260 var. (same). Near VF, toned, long stress crack across obverse, edge flaw on reverse. Rare.

From the Collection of a Southern Pathologist.