ALEXANDER THE GREAT SILVER TETRADRACHM – DOUBLE STRIKE ERROR OF RHODES ISSUE OF MAGISTRATE AINETOR – VF NGC GRADED GREEK CARIA COIN (Inv. 19685)

$500.00

19685. CARIA. ISLAND OF RHODES. CIVIC ISSUE IN THE NAME AND TYPES OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, ca. 205–190 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm of Alexander type, 30 mm. Issue ca. 201–190 BC, naming magistrate Ainetor.
Obv. Head of young Heracles right in lion skin headdress. Rev. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter, ΑΙΝΗΤOΡ above rose in left field, PO ethnic under throne.
Price 2518.
VF, “die shift,” a seldom seen error coin, doubling the contours of Alexander’s face.

 

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