260, Lot: 211. Estimate $200. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BITHYNIA, Herakleia Pontika. 4th century BC. AR Obol (8mm, 0.81 g). Head of Herakles left, wearing lion skin / Bull butting left; pellet above; all within incuse square. SNG BM Black Sea -; SNG Stancomb -; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -. VF, hoard patina, rough surfaces.

The attribution is tentative, based strictly on the similarity to Herakleian types, although the style is slightly different and this coin has no traces of an ethnic.