Bithynia, Herakleia Pontika Æ28. Gordian III, circa AD 238-244. Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟC ΚΑΙC, draped bust of Gordian III right / ΗΡΑΚΛEΩΤΑΝ ΠΟΝΤΩ, Herakles seated to left on rock covered by lion skin, holding kantharos in right hand and resting left on grounded club. SNG Stancomb 1078 (this coin) = SNG von Aulock 6960 (this coin). 9.79g, 28mm, 8h.
Very Fine. Extremely 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);
This coin published in Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Sammlung Hans Von Aulock (Berlin, 1957-1968);
Ex Hans von Aulock Collection, acquired directly, 1974.