ALEXANDER THE GREAT SILVER TETRADRACHM – REMARKABLE DOUBLE STRIKE FROM ARADUS – CHOICE XF NGC GRADED GREEK MACEDONIAN COIN (Inv. 19395)

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19395. MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. ALEXANDER III, THE GREAT, 336–323 BC.
Silver tetradrachm, 17.18 g, 27 mm. Posthumous issue of Aradus, ca. 320/319–315 BC, struck under Ptolemy I.
Obv. Head of young Heracles right in lion skin headdress. Rev. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter, AP monogram in left field, monogram under throne.
Price 3426 (with the traditional attribution to Byblus).
NGC graded CHOICE XF, Strike 3/5, Surface 4/5, “die shift.” A remarkable double strike that duplicates the upper portion of Alexander’s face.