MESAMBRIA SILVER ALEXANDER TYPE TETRADRACHM – ISSUE WITH ΔA CONTROL – CHOICE XF NGC GRADED GREEK THRACE COIN (Inv. 17391)

$950.00

17391. THRACE. MESAMBRIA. CIVIC ISSUE IN THE NAME AND TYPES OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, ca. 175–125 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm of Alexander type, 16.33 g, 32 mm.
Obv. Head of young Heracles right in lion skin headdress. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter, Corinthian helmet right above ΔA monogram in left field, ΠPO monogram below throne.
Price 1062; Karayotov, Coinage of Mesambria, 494–495 (O63/R206); Berlin, Münzkabinett 18249974 (same obverse die); ANS 1948.19.959 (same obverse die).
NGC graded CHOICE XF, Strike 5/5, Surface 4/5.