KINGS OF MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’, 336-323 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 27 mm, 16.84 g, 5 h), Babylon II, struck under Seleukos I, circa 311-300. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress. Rev. ΒAΣIΛEΩΣ - AΛEΞANΔPOY Zeus seated left on low throne, holding long scepter in his left hand and eagle standing right with closed wings in his right; to left, anchor and monogram; below throne, Π. Price 3349. SC 94.3d. The anchor deliberately erased, otherwise, very fine.


Interestingly, the anchor on the reverse of this tetradrachm was deliberately erased, perhaps by somebody opposing Seleukid rule.