Classical Numismatic Group Mail Bid Sale 84, 5 May 2010
Lot number: 516
Price realized: 310 USD + buyer's fees.

BLACK SEA REGION, Uncertain mint. Circa 125-00 BC. Æ (15mm, 2.91 g, 12h). 

Obv: Jugate heads of the Dioskouroi(?) right
Rev: Cornucopiae between pileoi of the Dioskouroi; [...]LIA-DW[...] below. 

Unpublished. VF, dark green patina with patches of red and brown. Apparently unique.

The reverse type was used at a variety of mints in the Black 
Sea region during the early period of Mithradates VI of 
Pontos. Typically, the city name appears across the field 
below the pileoi. However, the only legend that remotely 
resembles the legend on this coin would be that of Ilion, 
but not only were these types unused there, the legend
always used an O rather than an omega from well before and 
after the period to which this coin belongs.

Used with permission of CNG coins, www.cngcoins.com, Jul, 2010