ALEXANDER THE GREAT SILVER TETRADRACHM – PUBLISHED & PLATED EMISSION OF ODESSUS FROM THE BLACK SEA HOARD – CHOICE XF NGC GRADED GREEK MACEDONIAN COIN (Inv. 19345)

$2,500.00

19345. THRACE. ODESSUS. CIVIC ISSUE IN THE NAME AND TYPES OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, ca. 280–200 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm of Alexander type, 17.12 g, 28 mm.
Obv. Head of young Heracles right in lion skin headdress. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter, OΠ monogram below throne.
Price 1322 (as “Uncertain Black Sea); Marinescu & Lorber, “The ‘Black Sea’ Tetradrachm Hoard,” in Studies Prokopov, 320, attributed to Odessus (this coin listed and illustrated, one of eight specimens of this issue in the hoard).
NGC graded CHOICE XF, Strike 4/5, Surface 3/5, “brushed,” publication data noted on label.

Alexanders became a favored coinage for trade in the western Black Sea area during the 3rd–early 1st centuries BC. The “Black Sea Hoard” was published in 2012 and has been instrumental in clarifying the circulation of Hellenistic coins in the area, as well as invaluable in establishing their chronology. For researchers it has been a very important source of information and remains a frequently consulted source.