RHODES ALEXANDER TYPE TETRADRACHM – EX NAVILLE 1923 SALE – XF NGC GRADED GREEK CARIA COIN (Inv. 19694)

$1,400.00

19694. CARIA. ISLAND OF RHODES. CIVIC ISSUE IN THE NAME AND TYPES OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, ca. 205–190 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm of Alexander type, 17.05 g, 30 mm. Issue of magistrate Teisylos, ca. 205–190 BC.
Obv. Head of young Heracles right in lion skin headdress. Rev. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter, monogram (of magistrate’s name) above rose in left field, PO ethnic under throne.
Price 2511; Kleiner, “Alexanders of Pergamum and Rhodes,” MN 17, Group I, Series III, dies E/17 (this coin referenced); Ashton 245.
Ex Richard Ashton Collection, purchased from G. M. R. Hay in February of 1983 = Naville V, 6/18/1923, lot 1429.
NGC graded XF, Strike 5/5, Surface 2/5, the Naville provenance noted on label.