Æ17

Features

Issuer Istros (Moesia)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 300 BC - 201 BC
Currency Drachm
Composition Bronze
Weight 1.59 g
Diameter 17 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
191514
References HGC 3.2# 1813,
Oliver D. Hoover; 2017. The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series / Volume 3.2. Handbook of Coins of Macedon and Its Neighbors / Part 2. Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike : Sixth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania - London, United Kingdom.
SNG Stancomb# 202
William Stancomb, Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson, Peter Bagwell Purefoy, Andrew M. Meadows, Andrew M. Burnett; 2000. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain / Volume 11. The William Stancomb Collection of Coins of the Black Sea region. Oxford University Press, Oxford, England.

Obverse

Veiled head of Demeter right.

Reverse

Sea-eagle to left, clutching dolphin in its talons; IΣTPI above, ΑΠ monogram below dolphin.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
IΣTPI
ΑΠ

Mint

Istrus, Moesia, Romania

Comments

The piece in the image is published in SNG Stancomb Collection of Coins of the Black Sea Region 202.
Auctioned by Numismatik Lanz München, Auction 68, 6 June 1994, lot 67.
Auctioned by Roma Numismatics Ltd, Auction XVIII, 29 September 2019, lot 298. Sold for 220 GBP.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
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