Thrace, Mesembria Æ15. Late 1st century BC. Veiled head of Demeter right / Ear of barley, M-E-Σ-Α around; all within barley wreath. SNG Stancomb 245 (this coin) = Lindgren II, 810 (this coin); Karayotov 1994, 13; SNG BM Black Sea 288. 3.02g, 15mm, 12h.

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);
Ex H. Lindgren Collection; this coin published in H. Lindgren, Ancient Greek Bronze Coins: European Mints (San Mateo, 1989);
Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Auction 27, 29 September 1993, lot 295.