Thrace, Mesembria AR Tetradrachm. Circa 150-125 BC. In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left, holding sceptre; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ to right, ΑΛΕΧΑΝΔΡΟΥ to left, crested Corinthian helmet over ΔΑ in inner left field, HP monogram below throne. SNG Stancomb 239 (this coin); Callataÿ, D14/R1b; Price 1066; Karayotov 1984, 54; HGC 3, 1568. 16.17g, 31mm, 11h.
Extremely Fine; pleasant cabinet tone.
From the William Stancomb Collection; this coin published in Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume XI, The William Stancomb Collection of Coins of the Black Sea Region (Oxford, 2000);
Acquired from A. H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd., August 1978.