Thrace, Odessos AR Tetradrachm. Circa 280-200 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, monogram in inner left field, KOI below throne. SNG Stancomb 249 (this coin); Price 1164; HGC 3.2, 1584. 16.68g, 32mm, 12h.
Very Fine; attractive old cabinet tone. Very 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);
Acquired from Malcolm Hay, January 1979.