AR-No.AHLSZ 4DR-12 (LZ)

Phoenicia, Arados 217-216 B.C

AR 28.89mm (Thickness 3.23mm), weight 16.77g, die axis = 12h (0 degrees). 4 drachmae = Tetradrachm.

Obverse: Alexander III The Great; Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress.

Reverse: AΛEΞANΔΡOΥ, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left, footstool beneath feet, lower limbs wrapped in Himation, Eagle in right hand, sceptre in left hand, palm tree in left field, Aradian monogram AP under throne and era date 43 in exerque.

Posthumous issue.

LZ 2

Ref: Price Pg.427, No.3383; Duyrat 2005, Pg.41, No.1221-1232.

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