MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III the Great (336-323 BC). AR tetradrachm (27mm, 16.50 gm, 3h). AU. Lifetime or early posthumous issue of Tyre, by Laomedon, struck under Menes, dated Regnal Year 30 317/6 BC (Ake) or 320/1 BC (Tyre) of Azemilkos. Head of Heracles right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied before neck / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus seated left on backless throne, right leg drawn back, feet on stool, eagle in right hand, scepter in left; ЧO (Phoenician for Azemilkos) above -// (date) in left field. Price 3280 (Ake) DCA 737 (Tyre). Crystalized metal. For the reattribution of the Alexander series of Ake (Price) to Tyre, see A. Lemaire, "Le monnayage de Tyr et celui dit d'Akko dans la deuxième moitié du IV siècle avant J.-C.," RN 1976, and G. Le Rider, Alexander the Great: Coinage, Finances, and Policy (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2007), pp. 125-34.

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