Bithynia, Herakleia Pontika AR Hemidrachm. Timotheos and Dionysios, tyrants, circa 335-337 BC. Ivy-wreathed youthful head of Dionysus left, filleted thyrsos over shoulder / Herakles standing to left erecting trophy, nude but for lion skin draped over left arm and sword in scabbard suspended from baldric; ΤΙΜΟ[ΘΕΟΥ] to right, ΔΙΟΝΥΣ[ΙΟΥ] to left. SNG Stancomb 818 (this coin); Recueil général I, 34; SNG BM Black Sea 1609; HGC 7, 499. 2.36g, 16mm, 12h.

Good Very Fine. Extremely Rare.

From the William Stancomb Collection; this coin published in Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume XI, The William Stancomb Collection of Coins of the Black Sea Region (Oxford, 2000);
Acquired from Spink & Son Ltd., 1985.