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Auction XVIII  29 Sep 2019
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Lot 436

Estimate: 200 GBP
Price realized: 900 GBP
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Bithynia, Herakleia Pontika AR Drachm. Tyrant Dionysios, circa 337-305 BC. Youthful head of Dionysus left, wearing ivy wreath, filleted thyrsos over shoulder / Herakles standing to left erecting trophy, nude but for lion skin draped over left arm and sword in scabbard suspended from baldric slung over shoulder; ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΥ to right. SNG Stancomb 819 (this coin); SNG BM Black Sea 1612; Recueil Général p. 351, 39, pl. 56, 6; HGC 7, 501. 4.70g, 18mm, 12h.

Good 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);
Ex Auctiones AG Basel, Auction 15, 18 September 1985, lot 124.
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