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Bithynia. Heracleia Pontica. c. 305-284 BC. Didrachm, 9.70g. (12h). Obv: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress, tied at his neck. Rx: [H]PAKΛEΩTAN Dionysos enthroned to left, holding a kantharos and a thyrsos. SNG Aulock 366. SNG Black Sea 1618. BMC 32. SNG Stancomb 823 var. (monogram). Obverse weakly struck. Near Mint State.
Ex Superior, 30 May 1995, lot 7489, Lewis Egnew Collection.
Struck between the tyrant Dionysios' death in 305 BC and the capture of Heracleia by the diadoch Lysimachus in 284 BC, that is during the regency of Dionysios' widow Amastris: see W. Stancomb, NC 160 (2000), p. 267. This group of coins is very rare compared to the coins struck by the four tyrants between 364 and 305 BC.
Ex Superior, 30 May 1995, lot 7489, Lewis Egnew Collection.
Struck between the tyrant Dionysios' death in 305 BC and the capture of Heracleia by the diadoch Lysimachus in 284 BC, that is during the regency of Dionysios' widow Amastris: see W. Stancomb, NC 160 (2000), p. 267. This group of coins is very rare compared to the coins struck by the four tyrants between 364 and 305 BC.