Here's another coin that I received in the lot of coins from the William Stancomb Collection that I won in a recent Roma auction: MOESIA, Istros Æ 15mm. Late 4th- early 3rd centuries BC. Obv: Laureate head of Apollo right Rev: ΙΣΤΡΙΗ above sea-eagle on dolphin left, H to right. SNG Stancomb 156 (this coin, Fedesti Hoard); HGC 3.2, 1814. 3.11g, 15mm, 6h. Auction notes: "This coin published in Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume XI, The William Stancomb Collection of Coins of the Black Sea Region (Oxford, 2000); [ID #SNGuk_1100_0156] Acquired from a 1930s collection; Ex Fedesti Hoard." I poked around on the internet and found that the Fedesti hoard was a pot of over 200 bronze coins from Istrus discovered in Vaslui, Romania in either 1976 or 1984. (A Discussion on Coin Forum gives both dates.) I also discovered that @Orfew has a similar coin that he wrote about in a CT Post last September. His coin is in much better shape than mine, but I'm still pleased to add this modest example my collection: it's my first plate coin and my first documented hoard coin. We have recently had threads asking collectors to show their dolphin coins and their coins featuring eagles. Instead, how about I invite anyone with a coin from the Stancomb Collection and/or the Fedesti Hoard to post their specimens?
Good idea Glenn! I own a coin formerly in Stancomb's collection: Pontus, Amisos Æ18. Time of Mithradates VI, circa 120-111 or 110-100 BC. 4.06g, 18mm, 12h. Ref: SNG Stancomb 668 (this coin) ex Roma Numismatics, Auction XVIII, September 2019, lot 407 This is one of the earlier issues of Mithradates the Great. It is unclear if it depicts Mithradates, or Perseus (or both!) I don't own a copy of SNG Stancomb. If you click through to the link you can see the image from that catalog. The image is low-quality.
I have several coins from the Stancomb collection. It seems he decided to collect a relatively neglected area (at the time he started his collection) which strikes me as an excellent idea. They are still good value. Cimmerian Bosporos, Pantikapaion AR Hemiobol. Circa 480-438/7 BC. Lion head facing Quadripartite incuse square. SNG Stancomb 512 (this coin); Frolova 85; MacDonald 1/7; HGC 7 40. 0.57g, 8mm. Very Fine. Very Rare. Cimmerian Bosporos, Pantikapaion Æ26. Circa 340-325 BC Head of bearded satyr left wreathed with ivy Bow over arrow; ΠΑΝΤΙ below. SNG Stancomb 539 (this coin); MacDonald 59; HGC 7 106. 14.43g, 26mm, 3h. He had some interesting countermarked coins : Kimmerian Bosporos, Pantikapaion Æ20. Circa 310-304/3 BC. Wreathed head of beardless satyr left; c/m: 12-rayed sunburst within circular incuse Lion's head left, Π[Α]Ν around, [sturgeon] to left below; c/m: bow and arrow. SNG Pushkin 956; cf. for undertype: Anokhin 1039; MacDonald 70; HGC 7, 114. 6.71g, 20mm, 12h. Kimmerian Bosporos, Phanagoria Æ12. Circa 140-108 BC Ivy-wreathed and bearded head of young satyr right ΦΑ, bow and arrow. MacDonald 157; SNG BM Black Sea 993-4; HGC 7 173. 2.15g, 12mm, 12h. From the William Stancomb Collection Kings of Bosporos, Polemo I Æ19. Circa 15/14-8 BC. Lion running right, star above. Monogram of Polemo. SNG Stancomb 962 (this coin); MacDonald 230; HGC 7, 348. 7.21g, 19mm, 12h. Paphlagonia, Sinope AR Drachm. Krethe, magistrate. Circa 330-300 BC. Head of Nymph left, hair in sphendone, wearing triple-pendant earring and necklace, aphlaston to left ΣΙΝΩ, eagle flying clutching dolphin, KPHΘ[E] under wing. SNG Stancomb 767 (this coin); SNG BM Black Sea 1474; SNG Ashmolean 288 (same dies); HGC 7, 391. 4.77g, 19mm, 6h.
