211, Lot: 214. Estimate $200. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.21 g, 7h). ‘Babylon’ mint. Lifetime issue, struck circa 325-323 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; star in left field; below throne, monogram above M. Price 3631. Good VF, obverse a little off center.

It was in Babylon that Alexander died. This coin was likely struck in the years leading up to, or possibly the year of, his death.