EASTERN CELTS SILVER DRACHM OF ALEXANDER TYPE – CHOICE VF NGC GRADED GREEK COIN (Inv. 21086)

$450.00

21086. CELTS OF EASTERN EUROPE. Ca. 3rd–1st CENTURY BC.
Silver Drachm of Alexander type, (4.05 g), 20 mm.
Obv. Head of young Heracles right in lion skin headdress, surrounded by a heavy dotted border. Rev. AΛEΞΔΛ, Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter, abstract bee in left field.
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Ex Stack’s Coin Galleries Mail/Internet Bid sale, 12/18/2007, lot 14 = Berk 144, 7/13/2005, lot 59.
NGC graded CHOICE VF, extremely rare, with few similar specimens in market records. The prototype may well be an Alexander lifetime drachm issue of Sardes (cf. Price 2563–2564), showing a similarly oriented bee.