Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XVIII | Auction date: 29 September 2019 |
Lot number: 444 | |
Lot description: Bithynia, Herakleia Pontika Æ28. Gordian III, circa AD 238-244. Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟC ΚΑΙC, draped bust of Gordian III right / ΗΡΑΚΛEΩΤΑΝ ΠΟΝΤΩ, Herakles seated to left on rock covered by lion skin, holding kantharos in right hand and resting left on grounded club. SNG Stancomb 1078 (this coin) = SNG von Aulock 6960 (this coin). 9.79g, 28mm, 8h. Very Fine. Extremely Rare. From the William Stancomb Collection; this coin published in Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume XI, The William Stancomb Collection of Coins of the Black Sea Region (Oxford, 2000); This coin published in Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Sammlung Hans Von Aulock (Berlin, 1957-1968); Ex Hans von Aulock Collection, acquired directly, 1974. Estimate: 100 GBP |