MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III the Great (336-323 BC). AV stater (18mm, 8.56 gm, 11h). NGC MS 4/5 - 3/5, Fine Style, flan flaw. Posthumous issue of Babylon, under Seleucus I, ca. 311-305 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing earring and triple-crested Corinthian helmet with short parallel crest ends pushed back on head, the bowl decorated with griffin leaping right, hair falling straight in three tight spiral curls / ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, Nike standing left, wreath in outstretched right hand, stylis cradled in left arm; MI in outer left field, HYP monogram in wreath in left field below wing. SC 81.3 corr. (griffin, not sphinx). Price 3749 corr. (same).

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