Description
Macedonian Empire, the Alexandrine Era, Philip III Arrhidaios of the Argead Dynasty, King of Macedon 323-317 BC, Silver Tetradrachm (17.24g, 27mm, Attic Standard), Side mint circa 323-317 BC, struck in the name of Alexander III under the authority of Antigonus I Monophthalmos as Strategos of Asia. Obverse: Head of Herakles facing to the right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied before neck. Reverse: Zeus enthroned facing to the left, drapery flows around his waist onto crossed legs, both feet resting on stools, holding eagle in outstretched right hand and sceptre in left, “ΔI” beneath throne, wreath in left field, “AΛEΞANΔPO[Y]” downward to right, “ΒΑΣΙΛΕ[ΩΣ]” below. Price-2949. A notably well centred issue on a broad flan, nicer in hand, the portait of quite fine style; an immediately posthumous issue of Alexander, struck in his name during the reign of his brother, Arrhidaios, under the authority of the Macedonian general Antigonus I ‘one eye’, Very Fine.
