Pontos, Pharnakeia Æ20. Time of Mithradates VI, circa 95-90 or 80-70 BC. Laureate head of Zeus right / Eagle standing left with open wings on thunderbolt, head right; ΦΑΡΝΑΚΕΙAΣ below, monogram to left, star to right. SNG Stancomb 723 (this coin); SNG BM Black Sea 1276; HGC 7, 297. 8.27g, 20mm, 12h.
Near Extremely Fine.
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.