Bithynia, Herakleia Pontika AR Stater. Dionysios, tyrant, circa 337-305 BC. Youthful head of Dionysus left, wearing ivy wreath, filleted thyrsos over shoulder / Herakles standing to left erecting trophy, nude but for lion skin draped over left arm and sword in scabbard suspended from baldric slung over shoulder, club leaning against trophy; ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙ[ΟΥ] to right. SNG BM Black Sea 1610-11; HGC 7, 500. 9.56g, 27mm,
Very Fine. Rare.
From the William Stancomb Collection;
Ex Bonhams, 8 September 1998, lot 221.