ODESSUS SILVER ALEXANDER TYPE TETRADRACHM – MITHRIDATIC WARS ISSUE EX LANZ COLLECTION AND PUBLISHED IN KOSTIAL – CHOICE XF NGC GRADED GREEK THRACE COIN (Inv. 14793)

$1,200.00

14793. THRACE. ODESSUS. Ca. 125–70 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm of Alexander type, 16.04 g, 29 mm.
Obv. Head of Heracles right, wearing lion skin, the face with the features of Mithridates VI of Pontus. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus enthroned left, holding scepter and eagle, ΘE in left field, ΟΔΗ monogram under throne.
Price 1184; Kostial 872 (this coin listed and illustrated).
Ex Hermann Lanz Collection; ex Roma Numismatics XVIII, 9/29/2019, lot 215; exhibited at the Staatlichen Münzsammlung München during the 1997 International Numismatic Congress in Berlin as well as at the Berliner Bank during the same year.
NGC graded CHOICE XF, Strike 5/5, Surface 3/5, publication data noted on label, a variety where Heracles’ face bears the features of Mithridates VI, echoing the famous marble bust in the Louvre Museum. Mithridates styled himself as a new Alexander, protecting the Greek world from the expanding Roman empire.