ALEXANDER THE GREAT SILVER TETRADRACHM – EARLY POSTHUMOUS ISSUE OF TYRE YEAR 32 (318/7 BC) – VF NGC GRADED GREEK TYRE COIN (Inv. 18503)

$650.00

18503. MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. ALEXANDER III, THE GREAT, 336–323 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm, 17.20 g, 24 mm. Posthumous issue of Tyre Year 32 (318/7 BC), struck while under the rule of Ptolemy I as Satrap.
Obv. Head of young Hercules right in lion skin headdress. Rev. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter, Phoenician date in left field.
Price 3283 (Ake); Newell, Ake, 35.
Ex Salton Collection, likely acquired in the 1950s–1960s when Mr. Salton owned a numismatic firm in New York.
NGC graded VF, Strike 4/5, Surface 4/5, dark gray cabinet patina.