Moesia, Istros AR Drachm. 4th-3rd centuries BC. Persic standard. Two young male heads facing, side by side, one upright, the other inverted / Sea-eagle to left, clutching dolphin in its talons; IΣTPIH above. SNG Stancomb 138 (this coin); cf. HGC 3.2, 1801-4. 4.74g, 17mm.
Good Very Fine; irregular planchet.
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 (£120).