Kimmerian Bosporos, uncertain mint (Pantikapaion or Gorgippia?) Æ26. Makhares, governor of the Bosporos, circa 79-65 BC. Wreathed head of youthful Dionysos right / Bow case; monogram to left. SNG Stancomb 602 (this coin); Anokhin 212x; MacDonald 180/17; HGC 7, 110. 18.14g, 26mm, 12h.
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);
Acquired from Spink & Son Ltd, 1984.