Moesia, Dionysopolis AR Tetradrachm. Leon-, magistrate. In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Circa 225-190 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left, holding sceptre; ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ to left, ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ to right, bunch of grapes in inner left field, ΛΕΟΝ in exergue. SNG Stancomb 106 (this coin); Price 959; Tachev 2016, 53 (same dies); HGC 3.2, 1771. 16.76g, 31mm, 12h.
Very Fine. 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 A. H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd, June 1989.
Price realized | 550 GBP |
Starting price | 150 GBP |
Estimate | 250 GBP |