ALEXANDER THE GREAT SILVER TETRADRACHM – POSTHUMOUS ISSUE ALABANDA EX TELL KOTCHEK HOARD OF 1952 AND WITH SMYRNA COUNTERMARK – VF GREEK CARIA PROVENANCED AND PUBLISHED COIN (Inv. 19641)

$750.00

19641. CARIA, ALABANDA. CIVIC ISSUE IN THE NAME AND TYPES OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, ca. 173–167 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm of Alexander type, 16.59 g, 31 mm. Issue of Civic Year 1 (169/8 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, A below throne.
Price 2460. Published: Meadows, Alabanda in Caria. A Hellenistic City and its Coinage (Unpublished DPhil thesis, Oxford, 2008), Series 3, Group 3, dies OA4/RA56, a (this coin listed and illustrated).
Ex Richard Ashton Collection, CNG Electronic Sale 562, 5/15/2024, lot 115, there stated to have been purchased from Baldwins in 2006, and ex 1952 Tell Kotchek Hoard.
VF, with the scarce Tyche head countermark usually attributed to Smyrna.