319, Lot: 56. Estimate $100. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BITHYNIA, Herakleia Pontike. Circa 250-200 BC(?). Æ (18mm, 3.35 g, 1h). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Lion right; monogram above, facing boukranion between forelegs, club below. Stancomb, Autonomous 7a, dies A2/– (unlisted rev. die); SNG BM Black Sea 1631; HGC 7, 489. Near VF, brown surfaces with patches of red-brown and green patina. Rare.

From the Ronald J. Hansen Collection.