Watch List notes:

Thrace, Mesembria AR Tetradrachm. In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Circa 100-72/1 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left, holding sceptre; ΔΑ[O] in inner left field, ΜΕΣΣΑΜ below. SNG Stancomb 243 (this coin); cf. Karayotov I, M119, 828-35; de Callataӱ Mithridates p. 106, Group 4; Price 1128; HGC 3.2, 1570 (all with legend ΜΕΣΑΜ). 15.80g, 34mm, 12h.

Very Fine. Rare variant.

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 Glendining & Co., Auction 6, 16 April 1975, lot 278.