Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 308. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TAURIC CHERSONESOS. Pantikapaion. Circa late 2nd-early 1st century BC. Æ 25mm (15.63 gm). Wreathed head of Dionysos right / Bow case; monogram to left. SNG BM Black Sea 949; SNG Stancomb 602; Anokhin 212; De Callataÿ pl. 50, G; SNG Copenhagen -. EF, dark green and brown patina, light earthen encrustation. ($300)

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