Alexander Dekadrachm

410, Lot: 16. Estimate $10000. Sold for $10000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great'. 336-323 BC. AR Dekadrachm (32mm, 31.51 g, 10h). Babylon mint. Struck under Stamenes or Archon, circa 324/3 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; bee in left field; below throne, monogram above [M]. Price 3618A = Spink 71, lot 49 (same dies); Prospero 307 = M. Price, “Circulation at Babylon in 323 B.C.” in Mnemata: Papers in Memory of Nancy M. Waggoner (1989), 8 (same dies). Fine, toned, rough surfaces and deposits. Extremely rare, the third known with bee symbol.