GS85061. Silver tetradrachm, Price 3321, Müller Alexander 1363, Demanhur 3405 - 3426, VF, well centered and struck, attractive style, toned, scratches on reverse, Phoenicia, Arados (Arwad, Syria) mint, weight 17.038g, maximum diameter 27.0mm, die axis 45
o, struck under Menes or Laomedon, c. 324 - 320 B.C.; obverse head of Herakles right, wearing Nemean Lion skin, scalp over head, forepaws tied at neck; reverse Zeus Aëtophoros enthroned left, eagle in extended right hand, long scepter vertical behind in left hand, right leg forward (archaic lifetime style), ΣΩ left, A/P monogram under throne, AΛΕΞANΔPOY downward behind, BAΣIΛΕΩΣ exergue; ex Gorny & Mosch auction 245, lot 1203;
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