PHILIP III ALEXANDER TYPE SILVER TETRADRACM – ISSUE OF “UNCERTAIN MINT 6A” – AU NGC GRADED KINGDOM OF MACEDON COIN (Inv. 20596)

$1,250.00

20596. MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. PHILIP III, 323-317 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm, 17.16 g, 25 mm. Issue of “Uncertain Mint 6A (in Babylonia),” struck circa 320-315 BC under Seleucus I.
Obv. Head of young Heracles right in lion skin headdress. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ, Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter, ZΩ monogram in left field, ATP monogram below throne.
Price P162 (as Marathus); SC Ad39.3; Taylor Series I, 31 (A15/P11)
Ex Astarte 23, 10/28/2024, lot 145.
NGC graded AU, Strike 5/5, Surface 4/5, “flan flaw,” scarce issue.

Under the Settlement of Triparadisus (320 BC), Babylonia was given to Seleucus I as his satrapy, partly in reward for his role in death of the regent Perdiccas. This coin was struck during the first five years of his rule in Babylonia, during which time he gained popularity with the native inhabitants. Unfortunately, Seleucus was seen as an obstacle to the ambitions of Antigonus Monophtalmos, the powerful strategos of Asia, and he was forced to flee his satrapy in 315 BC. After spending years in exile at the Egyptian court of Ptolemy I, Seleucus finally managed to return and reclaim his satrapy from Antigonus in 312 BC.