MESEMBRIA ALEXANDER TYPE TETRADRACHM – DEEPLY IRIDESCENT SPECIMEN – GOOD VF GREEK THRACE COIN (Inv. 18434)

$875.00

18434. THRACE. MESEMBRIA. CIVIC ISSUE IN THE NAME AND TYPES OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, ca. 280–225 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm of Alexander type, 16.47 g, 30 mm.
Obv. Head of young Heracles right in lion skin headdress. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter, Corinthian helmet right above ΠA in left field.
Price 992; Black Sea Hoard 172 (same dies).
Good VF, dark toning with deep colorful iridescence especially on the reverse.