Extremely Rare Herakleia Pontika Diobol

CNG 85, Lot: 387. Estimate $4000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BITHYNIA, Herakleia Pontika. Late 5th century BC. AR Diobol (13mm, 1.88 g, 1h). Bearded head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Δ-A-Σ within linear quadripartite square; HP-AK-ΛE-IA around; all within shallow incuse square. SNG BM Black Sea 1569 = BMC 3; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen -. EF, toned, a hint of porosity. Extremely rare.

Ex Gorny & Mosch 155 (5 March 2007), lot 107.