Moesia, Istros Æ17. Circa 250-220 BC. Horned and bearded head of river god Istros, three-quarters facing, turned slightly to right / Sea-eagle to left, clutching dolphin in its talons; [I]ΣTPI above. SNG Stancomb 178 (this coin); SNG BM Black Sea 260; HGC 3.2, 1820. 3.47g, 18mm, 2h.
Good Very Fine; dark patina.
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 a 1930s collection in 1996.