Rare Bronze of Herakleia Sintike – Cited and Illustrated in RPC III

406, Lot: 124. Estimate $100. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON, Herakleia Sintike. Time of Trajan-Hadrian, AD 97-138. Æ (16mm, 3.79 g). Struck circa AD 101-138. Macedonian shield / Club right. RPC III 667.8 = E. Paunov, “The bronze coinage of Heraclea Sintica,” in Papers of the American Research Center in Sofia 2 (Sofia: 2015), 3 (this coin cited and illustrated); AMNG III/2, 1; HGC 3.1, –; SNG ANS –; SNG Copenhagen 182. VF, earthen green patina. Rare.

From the Belgica Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 142 (17 October 2005), lot 1298.