Kimmerian Bosporos, Gorgippia Æ27. Circa 100-75 BC. Young head right in diademed Phrygian helmet; six-rayed star and crescent above / Dionysos standing facing, holding grape bunch and thyrsus, panther at feet left; ΓOPΓIΠΠEΩN in two lines across fields, monogram in lower left field. SNG Stancomb 617 (this coin); MacDonald 178; HGC 7, 10. 18.25g, 27mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Extremely 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 A. H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd., 1973.