Stater - Alexander III Babylon

Features

Issuer	Kingdom of Macedonia
King	Alexander III the Great (336 BC - 323 BC)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	331 BC - 325 BC
Value	Gold Stater (20)
Currency	Attic drachm
Composition	Gold
Weight	8.59 g
Diameter	18 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 490066
References	Price# 3592 Martin Jessop Price; 1991. The Coinage in Name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus. Société suisse de numismatique = Schweizerische Numismatische Gesellschaft, British Museum (2 volumes). , SNG Ashmolean# 3028 Oxford University Press (publisher). Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume V - Ashmolean Museum. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (7 volumes).

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Obverse

Head of Athena right wearing Corinthian helmet with crest; sphinx on bowl of helmet.

Reverse

Nike standing left holding wreath in right hand, and stylis in her left hand; below left wing Φ and below right wing Μ.

Script: Greek

Lettering: ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ

Translation: Alexander (III, the Great)

Mint

Babylon, Babylonia, Iraq

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (331 BC - 325 BC)

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