Watch List notes:

Thrace, Mesembria AR Tetradrachm. In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Circa 125-100 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left, holding sceptre; Corinthian helmet over ΔΙ in inner left field, HPA below throne. SNG Stancomb 240 (this coin); cf. Karayotov I, 674-77 and de Callataӱ Mithridates, group 2 pp. 101-2 (both BY below throne); cf. HGC 3.2, 1570. 16.46g, 33mm, 12h.

Good Very Fine. Contemporary attempted piercing at 6h.

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 Peter Beirne, June 1992.