Alexander the Great Tetradrachm — Kolophon

Attribution: Asia Minor (Ionia). Kolophon. Alexander III of Macedon (lifetime or early posthumous issue). c. 336–323 BC (per dealer tags; Kolophon struck Alexanders from c. 325 BC, and a precise lifetime vs. early-posthumous date awaits the Price attribution). AR. tetradrachm.

Obverse: Head of young Herakles right, wearing the lion-skin headdress knotted at the neck

Reverse: Zeus Aetophoros enthroned left, eagle on his outstretched right hand, sceptre in left; ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ downward to right; monogram in left field

Weight: 16.97 g (tag) (From the earlier dealer's printed tag; not independently re-weighed. Attic standard (c. 17.2 g full weight).)  Reference: Price — (number cut off on the earlier printed tag; to be determined from the monogram)