Description
Thrace, Apollonia Pontika.
Silver Drachm, c. 450-410 BC.
Obverse: Inverted anchor.
Reverse: Gorgoneion, tongue protruding, serpents forming curls around head, all within an incuse circle.
(SNG Stancomb 34 (this coin) = Corpus Nummorum 6294 (this coin); SNG BM Black Sea 151; HGC 3, 1320).
Extremely Fine, a little off-centre.
Ex. William Stancomb Collection; 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 Corpus Nummorum (www.corpus-nummorum.eu).
3.41g.
