Thrace, Apollonia Pontika AR Drachm. Circa 450-410 BC. Thraco-Macedonian standard. Inverted anchor; under right fluke, crayfish / Gorgoneion, tongue protruding, serpents forming curls framing head; within incuse circle. SNG Stancomb 34 (this coin) = Corpus Nummorum 6294 (this coin); Topalov II, 38; SNG BM Black Sea 151; SNG Bulgaria, Numismatic Museum Ruse Collection 106-19; HGC 3, 1320. 3.41g, 15mm, 6h.
Extremely Fine; attractive cabinet tone.
From the William Stancomb Collection; this coin published in Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume XI, The William Stancomb Collection of Coins of the Black Sea Region (Oxford, 2000);
This coin published in Corpus Nummorum (www.corpus-nummorum.eu).