Watch List notes:

TAURIC CHERSONESOS. Chersonesos. Circa 250-200 BC. Drachm (Silver, 19 mm, 4.66 g, 11 h), Apollonides, magistrate. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress. Rev. XEP / [A]ΠΟΛΛΩNI Bull butting to left, his head facing; to right, countermark of a dolphin swimming left within oval incuse. Frolova & Abramzon 369 var. and SNG Stancomb 482 var. (both with additional countermark on the obverse). Very rare. Minor weakness on the obverse from countermarking, otherwise, good very fine.


From the Peninsula Collection, formed in the 1990s.