Bithynia, Herakleia Pontika AR Stater. Circa 305 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / Dionysos seated to left, holding kantharos in extended right hand and thyrsos in left; HΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΑΝ to right, TE monogram below throne. SNG Stancomb 823 (this coin); cf. SNG BM Black Sea 1617-19; Recueil Général p. 352, 44, pl. 56, 11; HGC 7, 456. 9.49g, 24mm, 12h.

Very Fine. 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 Empire Coins (California), 1988.