Stater - Timotheus and Dionysius

Features

Issuer	Herakleia Pontika (Bithynia)
Tyrant	Timotheus (345 BC - 337 BC) Dionysius (345 BC - 306 BC)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	345 BC - 337 BC
Value	Stater (2)
Currency	Persic siglos/drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	9.28 g
Diameter	22 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 583148
References	SNG BM Black Sea# 1607-1608 Martin Jessop Price; 1993. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum (Great Britain) / Volume 9.1. The British Museum. Part 1: The Black Sea. British Museum, London, United Kingdom. , SNG Stancomb# 817 William M. Stancomb; 2000. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Great Britain / Volume 11. The William Stancomb Collection of Coins of the Black Sea region. Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom. , SNG von Aulock# 363 Gebr. Mann (publisher). Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Sammlung von Aulock. Gebr. Mann, Berlin, Germany (17 volumes). , Recueil# 35 William Henry Waddington, Ernest Babelon, Théodore Reinach. Recueil général des monnaies grecques d'Asie mineure. Éditions Ernest Leroux, Paris, France (4 volumes). , BMC Greek# 23 British Museum (publisher). A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum. British Museum, London, United Kingdom (28 volumes). , Traité II# 2926 Ernest Babelon; 1910. Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines / Partie 2.2. Description historique: Comprenant les monnaies de l'empire des Perses Achéménides, de l'orient sémitique et de l'Asie-mineure aux Ve et IVe siècles avant J.-C.. Éditions Ernest Leroux, Paris, France. , Ward# 590 John Ward, George Francis Hill; 1902. Greek coins and their parent cities. John Murray, London, United Kingdom. , SNG Ashmolean# 385, 386 Oxford University Press (publisher). Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume V - Ashmolean Museum. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (7 volumes). , de Luynes# 2419 Jean Babelon, Louis Ciani (ed.), Jules Florange (ed.). Catalogue de la collection de Luynes - monnaies grecques. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France (4 volumes). , Jameson# 1385 Robert Jameson. Collection R. Jameson. Feuardent, Paris, France (4 volumes).

Obverse

Head of Dionysus wearing an ivy wreath left.

Reverse

Herakles standing left, erecting trophy, lion's skin draped over his arm and quiver over his shoulder; to left, club; below, head of a ram left.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
ΤΙΜΟΘΕΟΥ
ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΥ

Translation: of Timotheos and Dionysios

Mint

Heraclea Pontica, Bithynia, modern-day Marmara Ereglisi, Turkey

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (345 BC - 337 BC)

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	Leu Numismatik Web Auction 36 Lot 371	6 Sep 2025	VF	USD 431.48 (CHF 340.00) (+ buyer's premium)
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	Leu Numismatik Web Auction 26 Lot 967	8 Jul 2023	VF	USD 634.53 (CHF 500.00) (+ buyer's premium)
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	Roma Numismatics E-Sale 70 Lot 174	7 May 2020	VF	USD 2959.24 (GBP 2200.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Morton & Eden, Auction 14, 25 May 2005, lot 1040; Ex Ward and Metropolitan Museum of Art collections, Sotheby Zurich 4 April 1973, lot 499; Ex Boyne collection, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 21 January 1896, lot 390 = Ward 590
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	CNG Electronic Auction 244 Lot 156	10 Nov 2010	VF	USD 460.00 (+ buyer's premium)
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