COLOPHON ALEXANDER TYPE TETRADRACHM – EXTRMELEY RARE ISSUE WITH ME CONTROL AND LYRE – CHOICE XF STAR FINE STYLE NGC GRADED GREEK IONIA COIN (Inv. 19972)

$2,000.00

19972. IONIA. COLOPHON. CIVIC ISSUE IN THE NAME AND TYPES OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, Ca. 215–180 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm of Alexander type, 16.98 g, 30 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, lyre above ME control monogram in left field, ΠA control monogram below throne.
Price 1868.
NGC graded CHOICE XF STAR, Strike 5/5, Surface 4/5, “FINE STYLE” noted on label. Extremely rare, perhaps only the second known, the other in the British Museum and referenced by Price and in the Pella database; none in CoinArchives.