Thrace, Odessos AR Tetradrachm. In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Circa 90-72 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left, holding sceptre; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ to right, ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ to left, ΛAKΩ in inner left field, OΔH in exergue. SNG Stancomb 272 (this coin); Price 1193; Müller 429; Callataÿ, D5/R7a; HGC 3.2, 1589. 15.41g, 29mm, 1h.
Near Extremely Fine; wonderful, deep old 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., 1985.