CELTIC SILVER ALEXANDER TYPE TETRADRACHM – ISSUE EX LANZ COLLECTION AND PUBLISHED IN 1997 EXHIBITION CATALOGUE – CHOICE VF NGC GRADED GREEK THRACE COIN (Inv. 20545)

$1,750.00

20545. CELTS OF THE DANUBIAN REGION. Ca. 2nd-1st CENTURIES BC.
Silver Tetradrachm of Mesambria Alexander type, 16.92 g, 35 mm.
Obv. Head of young Heracles right in lion skin headdress. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔ, Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter, ΔA in left field, ΠY monogram under throne
Göbl, OTA, pl. 43, no. 573/1 var.; cf. Price 1047 which likely served as the prototype.
Ex Hermann Lanz Collection = Lanz, Kelten, 885 (this coin listed and illustrated) = Numismatica (Vienna) 4, 4/22/1974, lot 11.
NGC graded CHOICE VF, Strike 4/5, Surface 4/5, “overstruck,” beautiful gray toning with signs of the undertype on obverse, and a strong reverse strike, revealing the entire size of the die. While it is difficult to determine the undertype, it seems likely that it is another Alexander tetradrachm.