423, Lot: 19. Estimate $150. Sold for $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Odessos. Circa 90-80 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.13 g, 12h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Xen(o)–, magistrate. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; ΞEN to inner left, civic monogram in exergue. Callataÿ Group 2, dies D5/R2; Topalov, Odesos, Series 31, Issue 90; AMNG I 2175; Price 1201 (same dies as illustration); HGC 3, 1588. VF, toned, a couple minor flan flaws, light doubling and area of flat strike on obverse. Very rare, three in Pella, one further listed by Callataÿ, one in CoinArchives (correctly identified).

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, purchased from John Saunders, December 1999.