Kimmerian Bosporos, Phanagoria AR Didrachm. Time of Mithradates Eupator, circa 90-79 BC. Head of Dionysos right, wreathed with ivy / Bunch of grapes, ΦΑΝΑ-ΓΟΡΙ-ΤΩΝ below; all within ivy wreath. SNG Stancomb 625 (this coin); MacDonald 172; SNG BM Black Sea 997; HGC 7, 162. 8.15g, 21mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Extremely Rare; no other examples offered at auction in the past 20 years.
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.