Pontos, Chabakta Æ20. Circa 100-105 or 95-90 BC. Youthful, helmeted head of Ares (?) to right / Sword in sheath; XABA-KTΩN across fields, star-in-crescent to upper left, monogram to lower left. SNG Stancomb 712 (this coin); SNG BM 1250; HGC 7, 263. 8.34g, 20mm, 12h.
Very Fine. 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 John Morcom, 1971;
Noted as ex R. Ratto, Auction 11, 4 April 1927, lot 1680 (unverified).