Alexander III
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AR tetradrachm 17.1165 g, 28.0 mm
Babylon 325-323 BC
Price, Martin Jessop. 1991. The Coinage in the Name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus. Page 467 #3669. Zurich: The Swiss Numismatic Society.
Obverse
Alexander as Herakles right wearing a lion skin, quiver below
Reverse
Zeus on throne left, holding an eagle on outstretched right hand and sceptre in left. Torch left, monogram below throne, below that Μ
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