MYLASA SILVER TETRADRACHM – ALEXANDER TYPE ISSUE EX ASHTON COLLECTION STRUCK FROM REUT DIE – CHOICE VF NGC GRADED GREEK CARIA COIN (INV. 19693)

$1,500.00

19693. CARIA. MYLASA. CIVIC ISSUE WITH THE TYPES OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, ca. 210–190 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm of Alexander type, 16.52 g, 32 mm. Issue of ca. 210–190 BC.
Obv. Head of young Heracles right in lion skin headdress. Rev. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter, trident head left above MYO control monogram in left field.
Price 2494; Akarca, Les monnaies grecques de Mylasa (Paris. 1959), 3–6 (same obverse die); Mektepini Hoard 410; Propontis Hoard 59.
Ex Richard Ashton Collection, acquired from Civitas galleries = ex Dimitry Markov FPL 11 (2003), no. 29.
NGC graded CHOCE VF, Strike 5/5, Surface 3/5. The Pella database records five specimens in institutional collections, including the American Numismatic Society (inv. 1944.100.32229); British Museum; Bibliothèque nationale de France; Münzkabinett Berlin; Ashmolean Museum.

This is a very interesting coin as the reverse die has clearly been repurposed for use. The trident’s upper right part is cut above an earlier control which is largely legible (ΠΞ?) and a name originally in the exergue has been erased, with traces of several letters remaining. With careful study it may be possible to determine the original state of the recut die and whether it was used at a different mint.