★ An attractive stater from Babylon ★

KINGS OF MACEDON. Alexander III ‘the Great’, 336-323 BC. Stater (Gold, 17 mm, 8.53 g, 2 h), Babylon, struck under Seleukos I, circa 311-300. Head of Athena to right, wearing Corinthian helmet decorated with a griffin. Rev. BAΣIΛΕΩΣ - AΛEΞANΔΡOΥ Nike standing front, head to left, with her wings spread, holding laurel wreath in her right hand and stylis in her left; to left, MI; to lower left, monogram of MYP within wreath. Price 3749 corr. (griffin not sphinx). SC 81.3 corr. (griffin not sphinx). Light marks and scrapes, otherwise, very fine.