ALEXANDER THE GREAT SILVER TETRADRACHM – MESAMBRIA CIVIC ISSUE POSSIBLY THE BEST PRESERVED COIN FROM THE BLACK SEA HOARD – CHOICE AU NGC GRADED GREEK MACEDONIAN COIN (Inv. 19425)

$3,500.00

19425. THRACE. MESAMBRIA. CIVIC ISSUE IN THE NAME AND TYPES OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, ca. 280–225 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm of Alexander type, 16.86 g, 30 mm. Issue of Mesambria, ca. 240–225 BC.
Obv. Head of young Heracles right in lion skin headdress. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter, helmet above ΠO monogram in left field.
Price 988; Karayotov 127, citing the London specimen mentioned in Price that also appears in Pella.
Published: Marinescu & Lorber, “The ‘Black Sea’ Tetradrachm Hoard,” in Studies Prokopov, 190 (this coin listed and illustrated – one of six specimens of this issue in the hoard).
NGC graded CHOICE AU, Strike 4/5, Surface 3/5, “brushed,” publication data noted on label, perhaps the highest graded Alexander from the Black Sea hoard, with subtle golden tone.