132, Lot: 14. Estimate $300. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III 'the Great.' 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 16.98 g). Babylon mint. Struck under Antigonos I Monophthalmos, circa 315-311 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monogram in wreath before, KL below throne. Price 3713; Müller 717. VF, toned.

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.