ALEXANDER THE GREAT SILVER TETRADRACHM – BEST OF 3 SPECIMENS KNOWN EX KRICHELDORF SALE OF 1973 AND CITED IN PRICE – VF NGC GRADED GREEK MACEDON COIN (Inv. 19279)

$1,500.00

19279. KINGDOM OF MACEDON. ALEXANDER III, THE GREAT, 336–323 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm, 16.96 g, 27 mm. Posthumous issue of an uncertain mint, ca. 323–300 BC.
Obv. Head of young Heracles right in lion skin headdress. Rev. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter, Nike flying left above monogram in circle, MH below throne.
Price 4026 (this coin listed); Meydancikkale Hoard 2491 (same dies).
Ex “Kyrios” Collection, Spink 23108, 1038 = Kricheldorf 11/12/1973, lot 89.
NGC graded as VF, Strike 5/5, Surface 4/5, extremely rare, Price cites two specimens, including this one, and there is a third on CoinArchives; none listed in the Pella database.