Æ - Dionysius

Features

Issuer	Herakleia Pontika (Bithynia)
Tyrant	Dionysius (345 BC - 306 BC)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	337 BC - 305 BC
Currency	Drachm
Composition	Bronze
Weight	3.61 g
Diameter	18 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 583635
References	SNG BM Black Sea# 1613-1614 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# 820 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 Copenhagen# 423 Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Greek Coins. Danish National Museum. Copenhagen, Denmark (44 volumes). , Recueil# 41 William Henry Waddington, Ernest Babelon, Théodore Reinach. Recueil général des monnaies grecques d'Asie mineure. Éditions Ernest Leroux, Paris, France (4 volumes). , Waddington# 373 Ernest Babelon; 1898. Inventaire sommaire de la collection Waddington: Acquise par l'État en 1897 pour le département des Médailles et Antiques de la Bibliothèque Nationale. Rollin & Feuardent, Paris, France.

Obverse

Head of Heracles wearing a lion's skin to left.

Reverse

Bow in gorytos (bow case).

Script: Greek

Lettering: ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΥ

Mint

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

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (337 BC - 305 BC)

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