Triton XVII, Lot: 96. Estimate $1000. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Mesambria. Circa 275/50-225 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.55 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in inner left field, crested Corinthian helmet right; monogram in exergue. Karayotov I 3 (O2/R3); Topalov, Messambria 13; Price 985. Good VF, toned. Fine style.

The obverse style on many issues from the mints in this region are so similar as to suggest that either an itinerant engraver travelled among the mints, or else a central mint struck coins for all the cities. The present coin has an identical obverse style to issues at Kalchedon (cf. Black Sea Hoard 52–67) and an uncertain mint along the Black Sea (cf. lot 86, above).