Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III

Features

Issuer	Rhodes
Stated authority	Alexander III the Great (336 BC - 323 BC)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	201 BC - 190 BC
Value	Tetradrachm (4)
Currency	Attic drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	16.83 g
Diameter	31 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 405979
References	Ashton# 246 Richard Ashton; 2001. “The Coinage of Rhodes 408-c.190 BC”, Money and its uses in the ancient Greek world, pages 79-115. , Price# 2512 Martin Jessop Price; 1991. The Coinage in Name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus. Société suisse de numismatique = Schweizerische Numismatische Gesellschaft, British Museum (2 volumes). , HN Online# 1761 Historia numorum (http://hno.huma-num.fr/) , HGC 6# 1455 Oliver D. Hoover; 2010. Handbook of Coins of the Islands / Volume 6: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean, and Carpathian Seas (excluding Crete and Cyprus) : Sixth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States / London, United Kingdom. , Bement# 762 William S. Kundig (ed.); 1924. Collection Clarence S. Bement / Monnaies grecques antiques en or et en argent. Naville & Cie, Geneva, Switzerland (2 volumes). , Müller# 1156 Ludvig Müller; 1855. Numismatique d’Alexandre le Grand; Appendice les monnaies de Philippe II et III = Numismatics of Alexander the Great; Appendix the coins of Philip II and III. Imprimerie de Bianco Luno, Copenhagen, Denmark. , Kleiner Alexander# 29-46 Fred S. Kleiner; 1971. “The Alexander Tetradrachms of Pergamum and Rhodes”, Museum Notes, Volume 17, pages 95-125.

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Obverse

Head of beardless Heracles right wearing lion skin headdress.

Reverse

Zeus seated on stool-throne left, eagle on outstretched right hand, sceptre in left hand; in left field monogram above rose and below the throne ΡΟ.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ
ΡΟ

Translation:
Alexander (III, the Great)
Rhodes

Mint

Ródos, Caria, modern-day Island of Rhodes, Greece

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (201 BC - 190 BC)							$ 360	$ 2800

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	CNG Triton XXIX Lot 281	13 Jan 2026	XF	USD 3250.00 (+ buyer's premium)
From Elvira Elisa Clain-Stefanelli Collection (Stack's Bowers & Ponterio 172, 13 Nov 2012), lot 11575; Russell Burrage Collection (Part II, Morgenthau 342, 26 Nov 1934), lot 211; Clarence S. Bement Collection (Naville VI, 28 Jan 1923), lot 762
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	CNG Mail Bid Sale 78 Lot 391	14 May 2008	XF	USD 975.00 (+ buyer's premium)
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	CNG Electronic Auction 564 Lot 143	19 Jun 2024	VF	USD 375.00 (+ buyer's premium)
From the Richard Ashton Collection
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	Leu Numismatik Web Auction 29 Lot 281	24 Feb 2024	VF	USD 354.50 (CHF 280.00) (+ buyer's premium)
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	Heritage Auctions Wednesday & Thursday World & Ancient Coins Select Auction 232402 Lot 62060	4 Jan 2024	VF (NGC Choice VF)	USD 270.00 (+ buyer's premium)
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	Nomos AG obolos 30 Lot 183	17 Dec 2023	VF	USD 455.79 (CHF 360.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Nomos AG
	Roma Numismatics E-Sale 97 Lot 345	26 May 2022	VF	USD 483.73 (GBP 360.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Roma Numismatics Limited
	CNG Electronic Auction 509 Lot 161	9 Feb 2022	VF	USD 120.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Künker Auction 333 Lot 324	16 Mar 2020	VF	USD 348.77 (EUR 300.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Osnabrück and Lübke & Wiedemann KG, Leonberg
	CNG Electronic Auction 322 Lot 297	12 Mar 2014	VF	USD 750.00 (+ buyer's premium)
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