Kimmerian Bosporos, Pantikapaion Æ24. Time of Mithradates Eupator, circa 90-79 BC. Laureate head of Apollo right / ΠΑΝ-ΤΙΚΑ-ΠΑΙ-ΤΩΝ, filleted thyrsos leaning against tripod-lebes; ME monogram in lower left field and monograms in lower right field. SNG Stancomb 594 (this coin); MacDonald 171/2 (this coin); SNG BM Black Sea 938; HGC 7, 120; overstruck on Artemis/lying stag type MacDonald 165 and HGC 7, 119. 6.58g, 24mm, 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);
This coin published in D. MacDonald, An Introduction to the History and Coinage of the Kingdom of the Bosporus (Lancaster PA, 2005);
Acquired from Spink & Son Ltd., 1976.