Cimmerian Bosporos, Gorgippia Æ17. Time of Mithradates VI, circa 100-75 BC. Laureate head of Apollo right / Stag leaping to right; filleted thyrsos behind; ΓΟΡΓΙΠ-ΠΕΩΝ around. Anokhin Bospora 197; SNG BM Black Sea 985 (same dies); MacDonald 167. 4.03g, 17mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Very 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);
Ex Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auction 152, 10 October 2006, lot 1219.