ARADUS SILVER ALEXANDER TYPE TETRADRACHM – ISSUE OF CY 44 OR 43 – CHOICE XF NGC GRADED GREEK PHOENICIA COIN (Inv. 20376)
$850.00
20376. PHOENICIA. ARADUS. CIVIC ISSUE IN THE NAME AND TYPES OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, ca. 245–165 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm of Alexander type, 17.07 g, 26 mm. Dated issue of civic year 44 or 43, ca. 217/6–216/5 BC.
Obv. Head of young Heracles right in lion skin headdress. Rev. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter, palm tree in left field, AP monogram on throne, traces of the Phoenician date in exergue.
Price 3383 or 3384; Duyrat, Arados hellénistique, 1228–33 (obv. die D21 used over years 43 and 44); CNG Electronic Auction 397, lot 213 (same dies).
NGC graded CHOICE XF, Strike 5/5, Surface 4/5; the Pella database currently lists five specimens of Price 3384 (civic year 44), all struck using this same obverse die, but none of Price 3383 (civic year 43) struck from this die.