ALEXANDER THE GREAT SILVER TETRADRACHM – LIFETIME ISSUE OF BABYLON – VF NGC GRADED GREEK MACEDON COIN (INV. 19986)

$850.00

19986. KINGDOM OF MACEDON. ALEXANDER III, THE GREAT, 336–323 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm, 16.78 g, 25 mm. Lifetime issue of Babylon, circa 324/3 BC, minted just before Alexander’s death.
Obv. Head of young Heracles right in lion skin headdress. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter, caduceus above M in left field, monogram below throne.
Price 3682 (citing only one specimen from the Demanhur Hoard).
NGC graded VF, Strike 4/5, Surface 3/5, some roughness on the reverse, a seldom encountered variety that was struck at the very end of Alexander’s life.