ALEXANDER III ‘the Great’ AR Tetradrachm (336-323 BC)

ALEXANDER III ‘the Great’ AR Tetradrachm (336-323 BC)

struck circa 310-275.

Obverse : Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress.

Reverse : ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ Zeus seated left on low throne, holding long scepter in his left hand and eagle with closed wings in right; in field to left, dolphin left above vertical thunderbolt; below throne, monogram.

uncertain mint in Greece or Macedon,

16.72 g.

Price 852 var. (thunderbolt in the exergue).