Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 254. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.21 gm). Uncertain mint. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / Zeus seated left, holding eagle and sceptre; D in left field, QE below throne. Cf. Price 3786 (mint in Babylonia); cf. SC 295; Müller -. Good VF. Rare. ($400)

From the Tuck Pittman Collection.

Houghton & Lorber (SC 295) doubt the attribution by Price to a mint in Babylonia under Seleukos I, and also doubt that it falls under Seleukid coinage in general.