ODESSUS SILVER TETRADRACHM IN NAME OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT – ISSUE OF LAKON WITH PORTRAIT OF MITHRIDATES VI OF PONTUS – AU NGC GRADED GREEK THRACE COIN (Inv. 18364)

$950.00

18364. THRACE. ODESSOS. CIVIC ISSUE IN THE NAME AND TYPES OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, ca. 125–70 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm of Alexander type, 16.29 g, 28 mm. Issue of ca. 100–70 BC naming magistrate Lakon.
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, ΛΑΚO in left field, ΟΔΗ in exergue.
Price 1193; British Museum 1910,1104.49 (same dies).
Ex CNG Mail Bid Sale 58, 9/19/2001, lot 263.
NGC graded AU, Strike 4/5, Surface 4/5, an exceptional coin for the series as Heracles’ face bears the portrait of Mithridates VI himself, the features echoing the famous marble bust of the king in the Louvre Museum. Mithridates styled himself as a new Alexander and protector of the Greek world from the expanding Roman empire.