Macedon, Alexander III, Silver Tetradrachm, Asia Minor Lion's scalp facing

Lion's scalp facing

11h (Price 3139

nose points to I in legend with flat topped ear

fully round

50g (Schneider 119

Macedon, Alexander III, Silver Tetradrachm, Asia Minor Lion's scalp facingKingdom of Macedon, Alexander III, The Great (336 323 B. C.), Silver Tetradrachm. Uncertain mint in Asia Minor, posthumous issue, struck c. late second century B. C. Head of young Herakles facing right, wearing a lion's skin, rev. AEANPOY, Zeus enthroned left, holding an eagle and a sceptre, a monogram on left, 17. 02g., 12h (Price ; cf. Triton XIII, 5 January 2010, lot 107 for a similar piece with the monogram retrograde). Broad flan, some light old