★ Overstruck of numismatic interest ★

Bithynia. Herakleia Pontika circa 200-0 BC.
Bronze Æ

17 mm, 2,28 g

Laureate head of young and beardless Herakles right / HΡAKΛ([EΩTAN] above and beneath table draped with lionskin and surmounted by bow and quiver, club on ground before) ΔI monogram in left field. Overstruck on a previous (3rd century BC) issue of the same city: Head of Dionysos right, wearing lion skin / HP[AKΛEΩ]TAN around monogram of ΣA or ΣO.

nearly very fine

SNG BMC Black Sea 1637; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock 372; for host coin: cf. Waddington, Recuiel 79 (ΘPA above monogram).