Ex Pozzi Collection

Triton XVI, Lot: 415. Estimate $750. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BITHYNIA, Herakleia Pontike. Circa 305-281 BC. AR Didrachm (23mm, 9.05 g, 12h). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Dionysos seated left, holding kantharos in extended right hand and thrysos in left; HPAKΛEΩTAN to right. RG 44; HGC 7, 456; SNG BM Black Sea 1616–8; SNG von Aulock 366–7; SNG Copenhagen Supp. 295; Pozzi 2146 (this coin). VF, toned, a few light scratches under tone. Well centered on a broad flan. Rare.

From a Continental Collection, purchased privately in 1976. Ex Hess-Leu 36 (17 April 1968), lot 250; Prof. S. Pozzi Collection (Naville-Ars Classica I, 14 March 1921), lot 2146.