Cimmerian Bosporos, uncertain mint (Pantikapaion or Gorgippia?) Æ25. Makhares, governor of the Bosporos, circa 79-65 BC. Wreathed head of youthful Dionysos right / Bow case; monogram to left. SNG Stancomb 601 (this coin, Pantikapaion); Anokhin, Bospora 212a; MacDonald 180/46; HGC 7, 110. 16.03g, 25mm, 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);
Acquired from Spink & Son Ltd, 1984.