Bithynia, Dia Æ17. Circa 88-65 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / Standing club, bow in bowcase to right, both draped with lion skin; ΔΙΑΣ below. SNG Stancomb 804 (this coin), otherwise unpublished in the standard references; for a similar type cf. SNG BM Black Sea 1232 (Amisos). 3.56g, 17mm, 12h.
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);
Acquired from William Veres, 1987.