Collection: Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Context: Babylon
Material: Silver
Denomination: Tetradrachm
Issuing Authority: Macedonian kingdom
Actual Weight: 17.171
Die Axis: 90 degrees
Date: ca. 336 BC - ca. 300 BC
Region: Mesopotamia
Period: Hellenistic

Obverse Type: Zeus seated to the left on a throne; in left hand, a scepter; seated on his extended right hand, an eagle; border of dots. Mint of Babylon.

Date Description:

Reign of Alexander the Great (336-323 BC) or later.