Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 251. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III. 336-323 BC. AV Stater (8.56 gm). Babylon mint. Struck under Antigonos I Monophthalmos, circa 315-311 BC. Helmeted head of Athena right; serpent on helmet / Nike standing left, holding wreath and stylis; grapes in left field, monogram in wreath below left wing, KL below right wing. Price 3712; Müller -. EF, light ticks and scratches on both sides. ($1500)

Although this issue is dated to circa 317-311 BC by Price, Houghton & Lorber (SC) do not include it among in the coinage of Seleukos I's satrapy, circa 320-315 BC. The monogram-in-wreath control mark is linked to the coinage issued in Babylon by Seleukos, circa 311-293 BC (see SC issue 82), and this issue probably belongs to the period in which Seleukos had been forced to flee from the city by Antigonos.