Bithynia, Herakleia Pontika Æ29. Gordian III, AD 238-244. M ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟC ΑVΓ, laureate and draped bust of Gordian right / ΗΡΑΚΛΗΕΩΤΑΝ ΠΟΝΤΩ, Herakles struggling with the Cretan bull right, club in exergue. SNG Stancomb 1079 (this coin) = SNG von Aulock 6961 (this coin); Recueil général I, 222. 10.79g, 29mm, 6h.
Very Fine. Very 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);
This coin published in Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Sammlung Hans Von Aulock (Berlin, 1957-1968);
Acquired from A. H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd, May 1974;
Ex Hans von Aulock Collection.