Cimmerian Bosporos, Pantikapaion Æ23. Time of Mithradates VI, circa 85-70 BC. Laureate head of Apollo right / Filleted thyrsos leaning against tripod-lebes; ΠΑΝ-ΤΙΚΑ ΠΑΙ-ΤΩΝ across fields, monogram to lower right. SNG Stancomb 592 (this coin); Frolova & Ireland 2002, pl. 9, 8-14; SNG BM Black Sea 938-40; MacDonald 171; HGC 7, 120. 7.90g, 19mm, 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 Philip Kinns, September 1985.