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Thrace, Mesembria AR Tetradrachm. In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Circa 110-90 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left, holding sceptre; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ to right, ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ to left, monogram over crested Corinthian helmet in inner left field, monogram below throne. SNG Stancomb 242 (this coin) = Price 1107A (same); Callataÿ, D11/R1; Karayotov 1984, 799; cf. HGC 3.2, 1569. 16.48g, 31mm, 12h.
Very Fine; attractive old cabinet tone, test punch to rev. Extremely Rare.
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);
This coin published in M.J. Price, The Coinage in the Name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaios (London, 1991);
Acquired from Robert Johnson Coin Co., 17 May 1987.
Very Fine; attractive old cabinet tone, test punch to rev. Extremely Rare.
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);
This coin published in M.J. Price, The Coinage in the Name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaios (London, 1991);
Acquired from Robert Johnson Coin Co., 17 May 1987.