Kimmerian Bosporos, Pantikapaion Æ 33mm. Time of Mithradates VI, circa 90-79 BC. Head of Menes right, wearing diademed Phrygian helmet; above, crescent moon and eight-rayed star / ΠΑΝ-TIKA ΠΑΙ-ΤΩΝ, Dionysos standing to left, holding bunch grapes and thyrsos with fillets; at feet left, panther raising left paw, head reverted. Overstruck on uncertain Pontic undertype. McDonald 170; SNG BM Black Sea 936; Frolova/Ireland 2002, pl. 8, 1-12; HGC 7, 109. 19.01g, 33mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Very Rare.
From the William Stancomb Collection;
Ex Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Stuttgart Auction 1, 22-23 November 2010, lot 146.