Skythia, Olbia AR Drachm. Circa 160-140 BC. Laureate head of Apollo to right; countermark: helmeted head of Athena to right / [Lyre]; [OΛBIO] above, [ΠY] to left, [A] right. SNG Stancomb 431 (this coin); SNG BM Black Sea 622; cf. HGC 3.2, 1866. 3.88g, 17mm.
Good 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 Spink & Son Ltd., 1984.