Extremely Rare Alexander Type from Odessos

340, Lot: 54. Estimate $1000. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Odessos. Circa 280-225 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 8.43 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Helmeted head of Athena right / Nike standing left, holding wreath and stylis; in left field, OΔ monogram above monogram. A. Rogalski, “Les statères d’odessos” in Bulletin du musèe national de Varna XXX (1979), 26 (same dies); Topalov, Odesos –; AMNG I –; Price – (but cf. 1148–9 for tetradrachms related to this issue). VF, ex-jewelry. Extremely rare, only one example published, unknown to Price.