ALABANDA SILVER ALEXANDER TYPE TETRADRACHM – SPECIMENS PUBLISHED BY MEADOWS – GOOD VF NGC GRADED GREEK CARIA COIN (Inv. 20604)

$750.00

20604. CARIA, ALABANDA. CIVIC ISSUE IN THE NAME AND TYPES OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, ca. 173-167 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm of Alexander type, 16.40 g, 33 mm. Issue of Civic Year 6 (164/3 BC).
Obv. Head of young Heracles right in lion skin headdress. Rev. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter, Pegasus flying left in left field, ς below throne.
Price 2466.
Published: Meadows, Alabanda in Caria. A Hellenistic City and its Coinage (unpublished doctoral thesis), Series 3, Group 3, dies ς2/ς17, a (this coin).
Ex CNG Electronic Auction 596, 10/1/2025, lot 260 = Elsen 153, 12/9/2022, lot 23 = Auctiones AG 10, 6/12,1979, lot 124.
Good VF, surface roughly cleaned with slight porosity and traces of encrustation.