ERYTHRAE ALEXANDER TYPE TETRADRACHM – EXTRMELEY RARE ISSUE WITH BULL FOREPART – CHOICE VF NGC GRADED GREEK IONIA COIN (Inv. 19838)

$1,200.00

19838. IONIA. ERYTHRAE. CIVIC ISSUE IN THE NAME AND TYPES OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, late 3rd-early 2nd CENTURIES BC.
Silver Tetradrachm of Alexander type, 16.90 g, 30 mm. Issue of ca. 215-190 BC.
Obv. Head of young Heracles right in lion skin headdress. Rev. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter, club and bow in bowcase in left field, forepart of bull at lower left.
Price 1906; Mektepini Hoard 299 (same dies).
NGC graded CHOICE VF, Strike 5/5, Surface 4/5; rare, with two other specimens listed in market records and two others in the Pella database (Münzkabinett Berlin 18252326 and De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam GR-02851).