Moesia, Kallatis AR Tetradrachm. In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Circa 250-225 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left, holding sceptre; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ to left, ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ to right, monograms in inner left field, recut monogram below throne, barley ear left in exergue. SNG Stancomb 67 (this coin); Marinescu & Lorber, The 'Black Sea' Tetradrachm Hoard, 2012, 29 (same dies); cf. Price 938. 16.42g, 28mm, 12h.
Extremely Fine; beautiful 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 E. Alexander, 1992.