HERACLEIA PONTICA SILVER DRACHM – EX GRAND DUKE MIKHAILOVICH AND SIR ARTHUR EVANS SALE OF 1922 – VF GREEK PROVENANCED COIN (Inv. 21402)

$2,250.00

21402. BITHYNIA. HERACLEIA PONTICA. Ca. 352–345 BC.
Silver Drachm, 3.88 g, 15 mm.
Obv. Head of young Heracles left in lion skin headdress. Rev. HPAKLEIA, head of Hera left, wearing turreted polos with palmette.
SNG Black Sea, 1600; HGC 7, 468.
Ex Ars Classica IV, Grand Duke Mikhailovich and Sir Arthur Evans Collection, 6/17/1922, Lot 683.
VF, boldly struck with an exceptional provenance and extremely rare variety with the city’s ethnic on top.