Bithynia, Herakleia Pontika AR Diobol. Circa 425-395 BC. Head of Herakles left, wearing lion skin headdress / HP-AK-ΛE-IA around quartered linear square. SNG Stancomb 808 (this coin); Recueil général I, 1; SNG BM Black Sea 1567-8; HGC 7, 459. 1.79g, 15mm, 6h.
Very Fine. 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 Edward J. Waddell Ltd., 15 October 1998;
Ex Edward J. Waddell Ltd., List 57, September 1992, no. 61.
Ex Edward J. Waddell Ltd., List 47, undated, 1988-1991 [1990?], no. 24.