Watch List notes:

CIMMERIAN BOSPOROS. The Sindoi. Circa 400 BC. Diobol (Silver, 14 mm, 1.55 g, 11 h), Gorgippia (?). Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress. Rev. ΣINΔΩ[N] Head of a horse to right; all within shallow incuse square. Frolova Type II. HGC 7, 2. MacDonald 80. SNG BM Black Sea 1008. SNG Stancomb 632. Rare. An exceptional, beautifully toned and very well centered example, surely among the finest known. Minor marks, otherwise, extremely fine.


From the Pontos Euxeinos Collection, formed in the late 1990s and early 2000s.