Bithynia, Herakleia Pontika Æ16. Dionysios, tyrant, circa 337-305 BC. Head of Herakles left, wearing lion skin headdress / Bow in bowcase; ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΥ below. SNG Stancomb 820 (this coin); SNG BM Black Sea 1623; Waddington, Recueil Général 41; HGC 7, 502. 2.72g, 15mm, 3h.
Very Fine. Extremely 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 William Veres, November 1987.