SICYON SILVER ALEXANDER TYPE TETRADRACHM – 1/3 SPECIMENS ON RECORD WITH FEEDING DOVE SYMBOL – CHOICE VF NGC GRADED GREEK SICYONIA COIN (Inv. 19830)

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19830. SICYONIA, SICYON. CIVIC ISSUE IN THE NAME AND TYPES OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, ca. 225–215 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm of Alexander type, 29 mm.
Obv. Head of young Heracles right in lion skin headdress. Rev. [ΑΛΕ]ΞΑΝΔΡ[ΟΥ], Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter, dove feeding left standing on his knee, boy holding taenia over head in left field, EY control monogram below throne.
Price 720.
NGC graded CHOICE VF, an extremely rare variety of which there are seemingly only three specimens: Kress 11/13/1973, lot 308 (referenced by Price), another in CNG 108, lot 149 and this specimen.