ALEXANDER THE GREAT SILVER TETRADRACHM – AMAZING ROTATED DOUBLE STRIKE POSSIBLE CELTIC IMITATION – VF MACEDONIAN KINGDOM COIN (Inv. 19849)

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19849. MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. ALEXANDER III, THE GREAT. Ca. 3rd–2nd CENTURY BC.
Silver Tetradrachm of Alexander type, 16.82 g, 28 mm. Imitative issue, possibly Celtic, based on Alexander issues of Amphipolis, ca. 315–294 BC.
Obv. Head of young Heracles right in lion skin headdress. Rev. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ (in somewhat atypical letters), Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter, Λ above race torch (?) in left field.
Price B10.
Previously in NGC holder graded VF, “double struck with rotation,” impressive error.