DANUBE REGION. Balkan Tribes. Imitating Alexander III the Great. Ca. 3rd-2nd centuries BC. AR tetradrachm (27mm, 15.40 gm, 12h). Fine, test cut. Celtic issue imitating posthumous issue of Aradus in the name and types of Alexander III the Great of Macedon, ca. 328-320 BC. Head of Heracles right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied before neck / AΛEΞANΔPOY-BAΣIΛEΩΣ (partially retrograde and blundered), Zeus enthroned left, left leg drawn back, feet on ground line, eagle in right hand, scepter in left; AP monogram below strut. cf. Price 3332 for prototype.

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