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Bithynia, Herakleia Pontika AR Stater. Timotheos and Dionysios, tyrants, circa 335-337 BC. Ivy-wreathed youthful head of Dionysus left, filleted thyrsos over shoulder / ΤΙΜΟΘΕΟΥ to right, ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΥ to left of Herakles standing to left erecting trophy, nude but for lion skin draped over left arm and sword in scabbard suspended from baldric. Ward 590 (this coin); W. Stancomb, 'A Group of Staters of Timotheos and/or Dionysios, Tyrants of Heraclea pontika', in NC 2000, pp. 263-8, 19 (same obverse die); Recueil général I, 33; SNG BM Black Sea 1605-8; HGC 7, 496. 9.70g, 24mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the William Stancomb Collection;
This coin published in J. Ward and G.F. Hill, Greek coins and their parent cities, John Ward Collection, (London, 1902);
Ex Morton & Eden, Auction 14, 25 May 2005, lot 1040.
Ex Ward and Metropolitan Museum of Art collections, Sotheby Zurich 4 April 1973, lot 499.
Ex Boyne collection, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 21 January 1896, lot 390.
Very Fine.
From the William Stancomb Collection;
This coin published in J. Ward and G.F. Hill, Greek coins and their parent cities, John Ward Collection, (London, 1902);
Ex Morton & Eden, Auction 14, 25 May 2005, lot 1040.
Ex Ward and Metropolitan Museum of Art collections, Sotheby Zurich 4 April 1973, lot 499.
Ex Boyne collection, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 21 January 1896, lot 390.