Reign: Gordian III Persons:

City: Heraclea Pontica Region: Bithynia Province: Bithynia-Pontus

Denomination: Æ (35 mm); 24.80 g (3)

Obverse: ΤΟΝ ΚΤΙϹΤΑΝ; diademed bust of Heracles, right, wearing lion skin around neck, and holding club

Reverse: ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΑΝ ΠΟΝΤΩ; Heracles advancing right, head left, holding club and lion skin, conducting Cerberus; to right, figure of Pomona (?) on cippus, holding apple and ears of corn; to left, tree

Bibliography: CNG Triton V, 15 Jan. 2002, lot 1712 = Aufhäuser 15, 22 Mar. 2000, lot 100 

Diameter:  36 Weight: 27.35  

Reign: Gordian III Persons:

City: Heraclea Pontica Region: Bithynia Province: Bithynia-Pontus

Denomination: Æ (35 mm); 23.17 g (2)

Obverse: ΤΟΝ ΚΤΙϹΤΑΝ; diademed bust of Heracles, left, wearing lion skin around neck, and holding club

Reverse: ΗΡΑΚΛΗΑϹ ΜΑΤΡΟϹ ΑΠΟΙΚΩΝ ΠΟΛΙΩΝ; Heracles seated left, on rock, extending right hand towards small Eros standing right in front of him, holding club; to left, tree on which small Eros holding bow and arrow

Museum: P: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (France) Inventory: 624

Bibliography: SNG 266 = Rec 78, pl. LVII, 18 

Diameter:  37.5 Weight: 24.51   Axis: 6 

Reign: Gordian III Persons:

City: Heraclea Pontica Region: Bithynia Province: Bithynia-Pontus

Denomination: Æ (35 mm); 23.17 g (2)

Obverse: ΤΟΝ ΚΤΙϹΤΑΝ; diademed bust of Heracles, left, wearing lion skin around neck, and holding club

Reverse: ΗΡΑΚΛΗΑϹ ΜΑΤΡΟϹ ΑΠΟΙΚΩΝ ΠΟΛΙΩΝ; Heracles seated left, on rock, extending right hand towards small Eros standing right in front of him, holding club; to left, tree on which small Eros holding bow and arrow

Bibliography: Roma Numismatics XVII, 28 Mar. 2019, lot 536 

Diameter:  35.3 Weight: 21.82   Axis: 6 

Reign: Gordian III Persons:

City: Heraclea Pontica Region: Bithynia Province: Bithynia-Pontus

Denomination: Æ (35 mm); 22.75 g (7)

Obverse: ΤΟΝ ΚΤΙϹΤΑΝ; diademed bust of Heracles, left, wearing lion skin around neck, and holding club

Reverse: ΗΡΑΚΛΗΑϹ ΜΑΤΡΟϹ ΑΠΟΙΚΩΝ ΠΟΛΙΩΝ (retrograde); Tyche seated left, holding patera and cornucopia; at feet, left, personification of the Pontus Euxinus seated right, holding anchor, and right, river god Lykos seated left, holding staff (?) and leaning on water urn

Museum: P: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (France) Inventory: 623

Bibliography: SNG 265 = Rec 77, pl. LVII, 17 

Diameter:  37 Weight: 23.93   Axis: 6 

Reign: Gordian III Persons:

City: Heraclea Pontica Region: Bithynia Province: Bithynia-Pontus

Denomination: Æ (35 mm); 22.75 g (7)

Obverse: ΤΟΝ ΚΤΙϹΤΑΝ; diademed bust of Heracles, left, wearing lion skin around neck, and holding club

Reverse: ΗΡΑΚΛΗΑϹ ΜΑΤΡΟϹ ΑΠΟΙΚΩΝ ΠΟΛΙΩΝ (retrograde); Tyche seated left, holding patera and cornucopia; at feet, left, personification of the Pontus Euxinus seated right, holding anchor, and right, river god Lykos seated left, holding staff (?) and leaning on water urn

Museum: B: Berlin, Staatliche Museen (Germany) Inventory: 18273477, B-I

Bibliography: FM p. 260, no. 219 

Diameter:  35 Weight: 24.95   Axis: 7 

Reign: Gordian III Persons:

City: Heraclea Pontica Region: Bithynia Province: Bithynia-Pontus

Denomination: Æ (35 mm); 22.75 g (7)

Obverse: ΤΟΝ ΚΤΙϹΤΑΝ; diademed bust of Heracles, left, wearing lion skin around neck, and holding club

Reverse: ΗΡΑΚΛΗΑϹ ΜΑΤΡΟϹ ΑΠΟΙΚΩΝ ΠΟΛΙΩΝ (retrograde); Tyche seated left, holding patera and cornucopia; at feet, left, personification of the Pontus Euxinus seated right, holding anchor, and right, river god Lykos seated left, holding staff (?) and leaning on water urn

Museum: B: Berlin, Staatliche Museen (Germany) Inventory: 18273478, Löbb.

Bibliography: KM p. 8, no. 1 

Diameter:  36 Weight: 20.86   Axis: 7 

Reign: Gordian III Persons:

City: Heraclea Pontica Region: Bithynia Province: Bithynia-Pontus

Denomination: Æ (35 mm); 22.75 g (7)

Obverse: ΤΟΝ ΚΤΙϹΤΑΝ; diademed bust of Heracles, left, wearing lion skin around neck, and holding club

Reverse: ΗΡΑΚΛΗΑϹ ΜΑΤΡΟϹ ΑΠΟΙΚΩΝ ΠΟΛΙΩΝ (retrograde); Tyche seated left, holding patera and cornucopia; at feet, left, personification of the Pontus Euxinus seated right, holding anchor, and right, river god Lykos seated left, holding staff (?) and leaning on water urn

Museum: C: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (UK) Inventory: 

Diameter:  36 Weight: 22.03   Axis: 7 

Reign: Gordian III Persons:

City: Heraclea Pontica Region: Bithynia Province: Bithynia-Pontus

Denomination: Æ (35 mm); 22.75 g (7)

Obverse: ΤΟΝ ΚΤΙϹΤΑΝ; diademed bust of Heracles, left, wearing lion skin around neck, and holding club

Reverse: ΗΡΑΚΛΗΑϹ ΜΑΤΡΟϹ ΑΠΟΙΚΩΝ ΠΟΛΙΩΝ (retrograde); Tyche seated left, holding patera and cornucopia; at feet, left, personification of the Pontus Euxinus seated right, holding anchor, and right, river god Lykos seated left, holding staff (?) and leaning on water urn

Bibliography: Gorny & Mosch 276, 19 Apr. 2021, lot 337 = Leu EA 20, 25 June 2022, lot 1889 = Leu EA 26, 8 July 2023, lot 2182 

Diameter:  35 Weight: 23.21   Axis: 7 

Reign: Gordian III Persons:

City: Heraclea Pontica Region: Bithynia Province: Bithynia-Pontus

Denomination: Æ (35 mm); 22.75 g (7)

Obverse: ΤΟΝ ΚΤΙϹΤΑΝ; diademed bust of Heracles, left, wearing lion skin around neck, and holding club

Reverse: ΗΡΑΚΛΗΑϹ ΜΑΤΡΟϹ ΑΠΟΙΚΩΝ ΠΟΛΙΩΝ (retrograde); Tyche seated left, holding patera and cornucopia; at feet, left, personification of the Pontus Euxinus seated right, holding anchor, and right, river god Lykos seated left, holding staff (?) and leaning on water urn

Bibliography: Yuri Pokrass coll. 

Diameter:  37 Weight: 26.47  

Reign: Gordian III Persons:

City: Heraclea Pontica Region: Bithynia Province: Bithynia-Pontus

Denomination: Æ (35 mm); 22.75 g (7)

Obverse: ΤΟΝ ΚΤΙϹΤΑΝ; diademed bust of Heracles, left, wearing lion skin around neck, and holding club

Reverse: ΗΡΑΚΛΗΑϹ ΜΑΤΡΟϹ ΑΠΟΙΚΩΝ ΠΟΛΙΩΝ (retrograde); Tyche seated left, holding patera and cornucopia; at feet, left, personification of the Pontus Euxinus seated right, holding anchor, and right, river god Lykos seated left, holding staff (?) and leaning on water urn

Bibliography: B. Michaux coll. = CNG EA 531, 25 Jan. 2023, lot 538 (Dr. Michael Slavin coll.) 

Diameter:  35 Weight: 17.81   Axis: 7 

Reign: Gordian III Persons:

City: Heraclea Pontica Region: Bithynia Province: Bithynia-Pontus

Denomination: Æ (35 mm); 0.00 g (0)

Obverse: ΤΟΝ ΚΤΙϹΤΑΝ; diademed bust of Heracles, left, wearing lion skin around neck, and holding club

Reverse: ΗΡΑΚΛΗΑϹ ΜΑΤΡΟϹ ΑΠΟΙΚΩΝ ΠΟΛΙΩΝ; Zeus driving quadriga to right, battling serpent legged giants

Bibliography: Cast in Winterthur = Th. Prowe, 'Quelques monnaies grecques d'Asie Mineure', Numizmaticeskij Sbornik 3 (1913), p. 168, no. 16, pl. II 

Diameter:  35

Reign: Gordian III Persons:

City: Heraclea Pontica Region: Bithynia Province: Bithynia-Pontus

Denomination: Æ (35 mm); 0.00 g (0)

Obverse: ΤΟΝ ΚΤΙϹΤΑΝ; diademed bust of Heracles, left, wearing lion skin around neck, and holding club

Reverse: ΗΡΑΚΛΗΑϹ ΜΑΤΡΟϹ ΑΠΟΙΚΩΝ ΠΟΛΙΩΝ; Zeus driving quadriga to right, battling serpent legged giants

Bibliography: Hecht, British Museum filing cards 

Diameter:  37

Reign: Gordian III Persons:

City: Heraclea Pontica Region: Bithynia Province: Bithynia-Pontus

Denomination: Æ (35 mm); 0.00 g (0)

Obverse: ΤΟΝ ΚΤΙϹΤΑΝ; diademed bust of Heracles, left, wearing lion skin around neck, and holding club

Reverse: ΗΡΑΚΛΗΑϹ ΜΑΤΡΟϹ ΑΠΟΙΚΩΝ ΠΟΛΙΩΝ; Zeus driving quadriga to right, battling serpent legged giants

Bibliography: В. В. Шкорпил, Извѣстія Императорской Археологической коммиссіи [Izvestija Imperatorskoj Archeologičeskoj Kommissii] 17 (1905), p. 38, ill. 26 = M.-B. Højberg Bjerg, Money, Power and Communication. Coin circulation in the Bosporan Kingdom in the Roman Period (Wetteren, 2014), p. 392, no. 13 

Reign: Gordian III Persons:

City: Heraclea Pontica Region: Bithynia Province: Bithynia-Pontus

Denomination: Æ (35 mm); 21.71 g (1)

Obverse: ΤΟΝ ΚΤΙϹΤΑΝ; diademed bust of Heracles, left, wearing lion skin around neck, and holding club

Reverse: ΜΑΤΡΟϹ ΑΠΟΙΚΩΝ ΠΟΛΙΩΝ ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΑΝ; Zeus seated left, holding Nike and sceptre

Museum: NY: American Numismatic Society, New York (USA) Inventory: 1944.100.42123

Diameter:  36 Weight: 21.71   Axis: 7 

Reign: Gordian III Persons:

City: Heraclea Pontica Region: Bithynia Province: Bithynia-Pontus

Denomination: Æ (35 mm); 24.16 g (1)

Obverse: ΤΟΝ ΚΤΙϹΤΑΝ; diademed bust of Heracles, right, wearing lion skin around neck, and holding club

Reverse: ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΑΝ ΠΟΝΤΩ; Zeus (or Demos) seated left, holding patera and sceptre; in front, the three Charites

Museum: L: British Museum, London (UK) Inventory: 1979,0101.1297

Bibliography: SNG vA 6938 

Diameter:  36.2 Weight: 24.16   Axis: 12 

Reign: Gordian III Persons:

City: Heraclea Pontica Region: Bithynia Province: Bithynia-Pontus

Denomination: Æ (35 mm); 24.35 g (1)

Obverse: ΤΟΝ ΚΤΙϹΤΑΝ; diademed bust of Heracles, left, wearing lion skin around neck, and holding club

Reverse: ΗΡΑΚΛΗΑϹ ΜΑΤΡΟϹ ΑΠΟΙΚΩΝ ΠΟΛΙΩΝ, ΑΠΟ ΠΟΝΤΩ (?); Zeus (or Demos) seated left, holding patera and sceptre; in front, the three Charites

Bibliography: Tradart 18 Dec. 2014, lot 133 = Tradart 8 Nov. 1992, lot 95 = Leu 50, 25 Apr. 1990, lot 352 

Diameter:  35 Weight: 24.35   Axis: 12 

Reign: Gordian III Persons:

City: Heraclea Pontica Region: Bithynia Province: Bithynia-Pontus

Denomination: Æ (35 mm); 22.92 g (3)

Obverse: ΤΟΝ ΚΤΙϹΤΑΝ; diademed bust of Heracles, right, wearing lion skin around neck, and holding club

Reverse: ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΑΝ ΜΑΤΡΟϹ ΑΠΟΙΚΩΝ ΠΟΛΙΩΝ; Zeus (or Demos) seated left, holding patera and sceptre; in front, two small standing figures

Museum: P: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (France) Inventory: 621

Bibliography: SNG 269 = Rec 72, pl. LVII, 12 

Diameter:  35 Weight: 22.44   Axis: 6 

Reign: Gordian III Persons:

City: Heraclea Pontica Region: Bithynia Province: Bithynia-Pontus

Denomination: Æ (35 mm); 22.92 g (3)

Obverse: ΤΟΝ ΚΤΙϹΤΑΝ; diademed bust of Heracles, right, wearing lion skin around neck, and holding club

Reverse: ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΑΝ ΜΑΤΡΟϹ ΑΠΟΙΚΩΝ ΠΟΛΙΩΝ; Zeus (or Demos) seated left, holding patera and sceptre; in front, two small standing figures

Bibliography: CNG Triton II, 1 Dec. 1998, lot 626 = Gorny & Mosch 89, 5 June 1998, lot 312 = Gorny & Mosch 276, 19 Apr. 2021, lot 336 = Leu 14, 14 Oct. 2023, lot 122 

Diameter:  35 Weight: 22.77   Axis: 7 

Reign: Gordian III Persons:

City: Heraclea Pontica Region: Bithynia Province: Bithynia-Pontus

Denomination: Æ (35 mm); 22.92 g (3)

Obverse: ΤΟΝ ΚΤΙϹΤΑΝ; diademed bust of Heracles, right, wearing lion skin around neck, and holding club

Reverse: ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΑΝ ΜΑΤΡΟϹ ΑΠΟΙΚΩΝ ΠΟΛΙΩΝ; Zeus (or Demos) seated left, holding patera and sceptre; in front, two small standing figures

Bibliography: Gorny & Mosch 130, 8 Mar. 2004, lot 1842 = Gorny & Mosch 134, 11 Oct. 2004, lot 1926 

Diameter:  34 Weight: 23.55  

Reign: Gordian III Persons: Gordian III (Augustus)

City: Heraclea Pontica Region: Bithynia Province: Bithynia-Pontus

Denomination: Æ (28 mm); 12.82 g (2)

Obverse: Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑΥΓ; laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gordian III, right, seen from rear

Reverse: ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΑΝ ΠΟΝΤΩ; female deity (Aphrodite?) standing facing, head right, holding club and apple (?)

Bibliography: B. Michaux coll. = ex M. Mihalka coll. 

Diameter:  30 Weight: 12.96