Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 306. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TAURIC CHERSONESOS. Pantikapaion. Circa late 2nd-early 1st century BC. AR Didrachm (8.03 gm). Wreathed head of Dionysos right / Ethnic within wreath of ivy; grape cluster at knot, monogram above. SNG BM Black Sea 932; SNG Stancomb 589; Anokhin 198; De Callataÿ pl. 49, R; SNG Copenhagen -. VF, light porosity. ($300)

Struck during the early reign of Mithradates VI of Pontos, probably during or shortly after the second expedition of Diophantes.