ODESSUS GOLD STATER OF ALEXANDER TYPE – RARE VARIETY WITH ΔI CONTROL – CHOICE VF NGC GRADED GREEK THRACE COIN (Inv. 21135)

$6,800.00

21135. THRACE. ODESSUS. CIVIC ISSUE IN THE NAME AND TYPES OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, ca. 280–225 BC.
Gold Stater of Alexander type, 8.46 g, 17 mm.
Obv. Head of Athena right, wearing large Corinthian helmet with coiled snake ornament below the plume. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY, Nike standing, her hair gathered in a topknot, looking left, holding wreath in right hand and stylis, ΔI below left wing, OΔ monogram (for Odessus) below right wing.
Price 1135; Topalov, Odessus, 4.
NGC graded CHOICE VF, Strike 4/5, Surface 3/5, an extremely rare variety with four specimens in the Pella database (American Numismatic Society, Harvard Art Museums, British Museum, Münzkabinett Berlin) as well as four others on CoinArchives.