ALEXANDER THE GREAT SILVER TETRADRACHM – IMITATIVE ISSUE BASED ON EMISSIONS FROM BABYLON – VF GREEK KINGDOM OF MACEDON COIN (Inv. 20429)
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20429. KINGDOM OF MACEDON. ALEXANDER III, THE GREAT, 336–323 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm, 16.81 g, 26 mm. Imitative issue copying a posthumous issue of Babylon.
Obv. Head of young Heracles right in lion skin headdress. Rev. ΛAΞEANΔΡ[ΟΥ] [sic], Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter, ON (?) in wreath below throne, [BA]ΣIΛEΩΣ (with retrograde E) in exergue.
Price -, cf. 3726 for a possible source.
VF, some roughness on the reverse, possibly unique and unknown to Martin Price. The overall style of the dies is reasonably good, however the letters are garbled and the epsilon in the royal title is retrograde.
