★ Ex A. Hess, 1981 ★

Thrace, Odessos AR Tetradrachm. Circa 120-100 BC. In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left, holding sceptre; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ to right, ΑΛΕΧΑΝΔΡΟΥ to left, ΟΔΗ in inner left field, ΕΣΤIΑΙ in exergue. SNG Stancomb 270 (this coin) = Callataÿ, p. 87, Group 2 (D1/R1, this coin); Price 1206; HGC 3, 1588. 15.81g, 31mm, 12h.

Good Extremely 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);
This coin published in F. Callataÿ, L'histoire des guerres Mithridatiques vue par les monnaies (Louvain-La-Neuve, 1997);
Ex Schweizerische Kreditanstalt (Crédit Suisse), Auction 7, 27 April 1987, lot 7.
Ex Schweizerische Kreditanstalt (Crédit Suisse), List 50, December 1986, no. 41;
Ex Adolph Hess AG, Auction 251, 7-8 May 1981, lot 33.