MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III the Great (336-323 BC). AR tetradrachm (27mm, 10h). NGC XF. Posthumous issue of Babylon I, under Seleucus I Nicator, ca. 311-300 BC. Head of Heracles right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied before neck / AΛEΞANΔPOY-BAΣIΛEΩΣ, Zeus enthroned left, right leg drawn back, feet on stool, eagle in right hand, scepter in left; pellet above arm in left field, pellet above MI above head of lion left in left field, HYP monogram in wreath below throne. Price 3759 var. (no pellets in left field). Note - Price does not mention pellets on this issue, however, the example of 3759 on Plate CX does appear to have a pellet in the field above the arm, albeit closer to the upper border than the present specimen.

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