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Features
| Issuer |
Herakleia Pontika
(Bithynia)  |
|---|---|
| Type | Standard circulation coins |
| Years | 150 BC - 100 BC |
| Currency | Drachm |
| Composition | Bronze |
| Weight | 2.32 g |
| Diameter | 16 mm |
| Shape | Round (irregular) |
| Technique | Hammered |
| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 583626 |
| References | SNG BM Black Sea# 1635-1637 Martin Jessop Price; 1993. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum (Great Britain) / Volume 9.1. The British Museum. Part 1: The Black Sea. British Museum, London, United Kingdom. , SNG Stancomb# 843 William M. Stancomb; 2000. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Great Britain / Volume 11. The William Stancomb Collection of Coins of the Black Sea region. Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom.Gebr. Mann (publisher). Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Sammlung von Aulock. Gebr. Mann, Berlin, Germany (17 volumes). , Waddington# 332 Ernest Babelon; 1898. Inventaire sommaire de la collection Waddington: Acquise par l'État en 1897 pour le département des Médailles et Antiques de la Bibliothèque Nationale. Rollin & Feuardent, Paris, France. British Museum (publisher). A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum. British Museum, London, United Kingdom (28 volumes). Oliver D. Hoover; 2012. Handbook of Coins of Northern and Central Anatolia / Volume 7: Pontos, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, Phrygia, Galatia, Lykaonia, and Kappadokia (with Kolchis and the Kimmerian Bosporos): Fifth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States / London, United Kingdom. William Henry Waddington, Ernest Babelon, Théodore Reinach. Recueil général des monnaies grecques d'Asie mineure. Éditions Ernest Leroux, Paris, France (4 volumes). |
Obverse
Laureate head of beardless Herakles right, lion skin knotted around neck.
Reverse
Lion scalp resting on a bow in gorytos (bow case) on a stool; below, club.
Script: Greek
Lettering: ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΑΝ
Mint
Heraclea Pontica, Bithynia, modern-day Marmara Ereglisi, TurkeySee also
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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Numista Rarity index: 100
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Examples of the type
© British Museum, 1972,0709.61
15 mm • 2.18 g • ↑↑ 12h
15 mm • 2.18 g • ↑↑ 12h
SNG BM Black Sea 1636; BMC Greek 28
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© Bibliothèque nationale de France / Gallica, Waddington.332
17 mm • 3.17 g • ↑↑ 11h
17 mm • 3.17 g • ↑↑ 11h
Waddington 332
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Past sales
| Pictures | Sale | Date | Grade | Sold price | |
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Astarte Web Auction 2 Lot 63 
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9 Dec 2023 | XF |
USD 253.40
(CHF 200.00) (+ buyer's premium) |
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Roma Numismatics E-Sale 70 Lot 177
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7 May 2020 | XF |
USD 536.96
(GBP 400.00) (+ buyer's premium) |
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From the William Stancomb and Hans von Aulock collections = SNG Stancomb 843 = SNG von Aulock 372 |
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| © Roma Numismatics Limited | |||||
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CNG Electronic Auction 205 Lot 143
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25 Feb 2009 | VF |
USD 165.00
(+ buyer's premium) |
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| © Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. | |||||
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