CHIOS SILVER DRACHM – MULTICOLORED SPECIMEN EX NFA 1980 AUCTION – AU STAR GREEK IONIA COIN (Inv. 20299)

$1,500.00

20299. IONIA. CHIOS. CIVIC ISSUE IN THE NAME AND TYPES OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, ca. early 3rd CENTURY BC.
Silver Drachm of Alexander type, 4.29 g, 18 mm. Issue of ca. 200–190 BC.
Obv. Head of young Heracles right in lion skin headdress. Rev. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter, MP monogram above grape bunch in left field.
Price 2326.
Ex NFA Auction VIII, 6/6/1980, lot 116.
NGC graded AU STAR Strike 5/5, Surface 4/5, exceptional multicolored iridescence.