ALEXANDER THE GREAT SILVER TETRADRACHM – GALATIAN ISSUE WITH DOLPHIN SYMBOL – XF NGC GRADED GREEK MACEDONIAN KINGDOM COIN (Inv. 18449)

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18449. MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. ALEXANDER III, THE GREAT, 336–323 BC.
Silver tetradrachm, 14.42 g, 25 mm. Posthumous issue of an uncertain Eastern Mint sometimes identified as a “Celtic Issue from Lykaonia” or “Galatian Issue,” ca. 250–200 BC.
Obv. Head of young Heracles right in lion skin headdress. Rev. [ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ], Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter, dolphin swimming downward in left field.
Price B3 (as “barbaric”).
NGC graded XF, Strike 4/5, Surface 3/5, “edge scuff,” a rare emission from a short–lived series.