Bithynia, Herakleia Pontika EL Hekte. Circa 530-520 BC. Head of Herakles to left, wearing lion skin headdress / Quadripartite incuse square. W. Fischer-Bossert: Die Elektronhekten mit dem Herakleskopf: Herakleia Pontike, nicht Erythrai, in: NZ 126 (2020), Group 2; BMC 7-11 ('Erythrai'); SNG Kayhan 737-8 ('Erythrai'); SNG von Aulock 1942 ('Erythrai'). 2.51g, 10mm.
Extremely Fine.
From the Coins of 100 Generations Collection, published online at http://www.goldencollection.club.
Long attributed to Erythrai in Ionia, W. Fischer-Bossert's 2020 die-study reassigns the issue to Herakleia Pontika in Bithynia.