Bithynia, Herakleia Pontika AR Stater. In the types of Alexander III of Macedon. Circa 305-285 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / Dionysus seated to left on throne, holding kantharos in outstretched right hand and thyrsos in left; HPAKΛEΩΤΑΝ to right, monogram below throne. SNG Stancomb 824 (this coin); Recueil général I, 44, 6; cf. SNG BM Black Sea 1616-17 (diff. monograms); HGC 7, 456. 9.18g, 24mm, 12h.
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);
Ex Jacob Schulman Amsterdam, List 204, December 1973, lot 53.