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Features

Issuer	Herakleia Pontika (Bithynia)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	281 BC - 250 BC
Currency	Drachm
Composition	Bronze
Weight	8.93 g
Diameter	23 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 583632
References	SNG BM Black Sea# 1632-1634 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# 826 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. , BMC Greek# 41-42 British Museum (publisher). A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum. British Museum, London, United Kingdom (28 volumes). , Recueil# 47 William Henry Waddington, Ernest Babelon, Théodore Reinach. Recueil général des monnaies grecques d'Asie mineure. Éditions Ernest Leroux, Paris, France (4 volumes). , HGC 7# 484 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. , SNG Ashmolean# 420 Oxford University Press (publisher). Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume V - Ashmolean Museum. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (7 volumes). , Laffaille# 424 Pierre Strauss; 1990. Collection Maurice Laffaille: monnaies grecques en bronze. Monnaies et Medailles, Basel, Switzerland.

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Obverse

Head of Heracles wearing a lion's skin to right.

Reverse

Bow in gorytos (bow case) above club.

Script: Greek

Lettering: ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΑΝ

Mint

Heraclea Pontica, Bithynia, modern-day Marmara Ereglisi, Turkey

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (281 BC - 250 BC)								$ 380

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: CNG Electronic Auction 444 Lot 124	15 May 2019	XF	USD 380.00 (+ buyer's premium)
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	Münzen & Medaillen GmbH Auction 17 Lot 747	4 Oct 2005	XF	USD 432.06 (EUR 375.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Münzen & Medaillen GmbH
	CNG Triton V Lot 418	16 Jan 2002	XF	USD 280.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.