★ Published in Price, Ex NumCirc 97, 1989 ★

Bithynia, Herakleia Pontika AR Tetradrachm. In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Circa 235-220 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left, holding sceptre; ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ to right, two monograms in left field, club below throne. SNG Stancomb 839 (this coin) = Price 1284a (this coin); HGC 7, 481. 17.06g, 30mm, 12h.

Good Very Fine. Very 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);
This coin published in M. J. Price, The Coinage in the Name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaios (London, 1991);
Ex Spink & Son Ltd., Numismatic Circular XCVII.5, June 1989, lot 3026;
Ex Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger, Auction 161, 22 February 1989, lot 166;
Ex Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger, Auction 156, 25 November 1987, lot 105.