ALEXANDER THE GREAT SILVER TETRADRACHM – LIFETIME/POSTHUMOUS ISSUE OF CILICIA – CHOICE XF GREEK KINGDOM OF MACEDON COIN (Inv. 20987)

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20987. KINGDOM OF MACEDON. ALEXANDER III, THE GREAT, 336–323 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm, 17.31 g, 26 mm. LIFETIME/EARLY POSTHUMOUS ISSUE of an uncertain mint in Cilicia, ca. 323–317 BC.
Obv. Head of young Heracles right in lion skin headdress. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter, wreath in left field, ΔI monogram below throne.
Price 2949 (as Side).
NGC CHOICE XF, Strike 5/5, Surface 4/5, a coin struck just before Alexander’s death in 323 BC, high–relief strike, with a perfect, full–head Zeus.