DEMETRIUS POLIORCETES SILVER ALEXANDER TYPE TETRADRACHM – RARE ISSUE OF TYRE – CHOICE FINE NGC GRADED GREEK MACEDONIAN COIN (Inv. 21087)

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21087. KINGDOM OF MACEDON. DEMETRIUS POLIORCETES, 306–283 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm of Alexander type, (16.96) g, 24 mm. Issue of Tyre in the name of Demetrius Poliorcetes, ca. 290–287 BC.
Obv. Head of young Heracles right in lion skin headdress. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΔMHTPIOY, Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter, club in circle in left field, monogram below throne.
Newell, The Coinage of Demetrius Poliorketes, 29 (dies XXXIV/68), pl. III, 12 (same dies), cf. Price 3559 for the same issue with Alexander’s name.
Ex Barry Murphy, with his ticked dated 7/24/2004.
NGC graded CHOICE FINE, “graffito,” rare with Demetrius’ name, CoinArchives lists six other specimens of this type.