Cimmerian Bosporos, Pantikapaion AR Didrachm. Time of Mithradates VI, circa 90-79 or 85-70 BC. Ivy-wreathed head of Dionysos right / Grape bunch, ΠΑΝΤΙ-ΚΑΠΑΙ-ΤΩΝ in three lines below; all within ivy wreath. SNG Stancomb 589 (this coin); Frolova & Ireland 2002, pl. 4-5, 1-24; MacDonald 168; SNG BM Black Sea 934 (same dies); HGC 7, 98 (same dies). 8.23g, 21mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Very Rare.
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);
Acquired from Spink & Son Ltd.