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Bithynia, Herakleia Pontika AR Stater. Tyrants Timotheos and Dionysios, circa 346 BC. Youthful head of Dionysos left, wearing ivy wreath, filleted thyrsos over shoulder / Herakles standing to left erecting trophy, nude but for lion skin draped over left arm and sword in scabbard suspended from baldric slung over shoulder; ΤΙΜΟΘΕΟΥ to right, ram's head below. SNG Stancomb -; Stancomb NC 2000, p. 264, 1 (this coin); cf. SNG BM Black Sea 1607 (noted as Timotheos and Dionysios). 9.62g, 22mm, 12h.
Near Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare, and potentially of significant numismatic importance.
From the William Stancomb Collection;
This coin published in W.M. Stancomb, A Group of Staters of Timotheus and/or Dionysius, Tyrants of Heraklea Pontica, The Numismatic Chronicle, Vol. 160 (2000) pp. 263-74
Ex Bonhams, 8 September 1998, lot 219.
William Stancomb and Dr. Stanley Ireland attributed this coin to the brief period of sole rule of Timotheos, before he shared his power with his younger brother Dionysios. The joint reign coinage of Timotheos and Dionysios is well attested, but a sole reign of Timotheos is not. The strike of the present example leaves doubt as to whether the name of Dionysos might be present but off-flan, however BM Black Sea 1607 appears not to display a legend for Dionysios, seemingly corroborating the existence of a brief sole rule coinage. That this coin did not share dies with any of the other 15 staters of Herakleia Pontika in the names of Timotheos and Dionysios from the hoard sold by Bonhams in 1998 may be viewed as further supporting evidence.
Near Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare, and potentially of significant numismatic importance.
From the William Stancomb Collection;
This coin published in W.M. Stancomb, A Group of Staters of Timotheus and/or Dionysius, Tyrants of Heraklea Pontica, The Numismatic Chronicle, Vol. 160 (2000) pp. 263-74
Ex Bonhams, 8 September 1998, lot 219.
William Stancomb and Dr. Stanley Ireland attributed this coin to the brief period of sole rule of Timotheos, before he shared his power with his younger brother Dionysios. The joint reign coinage of Timotheos and Dionysios is well attested, but a sole reign of Timotheos is not. The strike of the present example leaves doubt as to whether the name of Dionysos might be present but off-flan, however BM Black Sea 1607 appears not to display a legend for Dionysios, seemingly corroborating the existence of a brief sole rule coinage. That this coin did not share dies with any of the other 15 staters of Herakleia Pontika in the names of Timotheos and Dionysios from the hoard sold by Bonhams in 1998 may be viewed as further supporting evidence.