ALEXANDER THE GREAT SILVER TETRADRACHM – LIFETIME ISSUE STRUCK AT TARSUS RIGHT AROUND YEAR OF ALEXANDER’S DEATH – CHOICE XF NGC GRADED GREEK MACEDONIAN COIN (Inv. 17634)

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17634. MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. ALEXANDER III, 336–323 BC.
Silver tetradrachm, 16.96 g, 26 mm. Lifetime issue of Tarsus, ca. 327-323 BC.
Obv. Head of young Heracles right in lion skin headdress. Rev. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter, plow in left field, Θ under strut, globule on upper right between Zeus and scepter and another between throne leg and scepter.
Price, 3032.
NGC graded as CHOICE XF, Strike 5/5, Surface 2/5, an issue that according to Price’s chronology was struck at the end of the series spanning 327 and 323 BC, thus around the time of Alexander’s death in 323 BC.