ALEXANDER THE GREAT SILVER TETRADRACHM – POSTHUMOUS ISSUE OF TENEDOS EX WESTMORELAND COLLECTION – CHOICE XF NGC GRADED GREEK TROAS PROVENANCED AND PUBLISHED COIN (Inv. 21137)

$1,450.00

21137. TROAS. TENEDOS. CIVIC ISSUE IN THE NAME AND TYPES OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, ca. 270-235 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm of Alexander type, 17.09 g, 26 mm. Issue of ca. 270–235 BC.
Obv. Head of young Heracles right in lion skin headdress. Rev. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter, labrys (double–axe) in left field.
Price 2074 (Miletus or Mylasa); Meadows, Double-Axe Mint, Group 3c, 55, dies 04/R10 (only one specimen cited for this die pair).
Published: Westmoreland 22 (this coin listed and illustrated) = ex John L. Warner Collection, Heritage 311, 1/11/2003, lot 14109 = Superior, 12/6/1996, lot 1441.
NGC CHOICE XF, Strike 4/5, Surface 3/5, “brushed,” Westmoreland publication noted on label, identified with older attribution to Mylasa on NGC label.