- ID: 142

Submitter: Jean-Luc

Added: 1997-11-26

MACEDONIA
Alexander the Great, 336-323 B.C.

AV-Tetradrachm (Gold).
Av.: Head of Hercules to r., wearing lion-skin heardress..
Rv.: Zeus enthroned to l. with eagle and scepter.
c. 17 g.

BoC: 18/1, 1993, p.29.

FAKE – The style is reminicent of the “Babylon” mint, the tripod, however, does not occur as a symbol on Babylon tetradrchms.