Thrace, Mesembria AR Tetradrachm. In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Circa 275-225 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left, holding sceptre; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ to left, ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ to right, Corinthian helmet to left, monogram below. SNG Stancomb 232 (this coin); cf. Price 992; cf. Karayotov I, 45. 16.85g, 31mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
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);
Ex A. H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd., Auction 4, 3 May 1995, lot 60.