Bithynia, Herakleia Pontika AR Drachm. Dionysios, tyrant, circa 337-305 BC. Youthful head of Dionysus 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; ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟ[Υ] to right. SNG Stancomb 819; SNG BM Black Sea 1612; Recueil général p. 351, 39, pl. 56, 6; HGC 7, 501. 4.63g, 18mm, 11h.
Very Fine.
From the William Stancomb Collection;
Acquired from A. H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd, 1976.