CNG 102, Lot: 186. Estimate $300. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Odessos. Circa 80-72/1 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 15.82 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; ΛAK in left field, OΔH in exergue. Callataÿ Group 3, dies D2/R2; Topalov, Odesos, Series 31, Issue 81; AMNG I 2173; Price 1192; SNG Ashmolean 2681 (same dies). Good VF, lightly toned. Well centered and struck for issue.

From the Allan Smith, M.D. Collection, purchased from Pars Coins, 21 March 2011.