Bithynia, Herakleia Pontika Æ29. Gordian III, circa AD 238-244. Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟC ΑVΓ, laureate and draped bust of Gordian III right / ΗΡΑΚΛEΩΤΑΝ ΠΟΝΤΩ, Herakles advancing to right, lion skin wrapped around left arm, holding club aloft in right hand; beside him, Cretan bull standing to right, head turned upwards. Stancomb 1080 (this coin) = SNG von Aulock 424 (this coin). 13.32g, 29mm, 8h.
Good 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.