★ Lifetime issue ★

KINGS of MACEDON: Alexander III 'the Great’ (336-323 BCE) AR Drachm, Struck under Menander c. 324/3 BCE. Sardes, 4.30g, 17mm.
Obv: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin
Rev: Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; rose below throne.
Price 2571; ADM I Series X.
From the Chris B collection, ex CNG E-Auction 427 lot 91, 22.08.2018

If Price is correct, this coin was struck near the end of Alexander’s life under Menander, the general he had assigned to govern Lydia. Menander had just brought reinforcements to Alexander in Babylon and was likely present at the momentous occasion of the great man’s death. In the aftermath, he allied with Antigonos I Monopthalmos.