Description: Troas, Gergis, 4th - 3rd century BC. Head of Sibyl Herophile facing, turned slightly right, wearing laurel wreath, necklace and earrings / ΓΕΡ; Sphinx seated right.

Diameter: AE8 mm

Weight: 0,54 g

Grade: aVF/gF

Attribution: SNG Cop 337; SNG von Aulock 1513

Commentary: rare small denomination; black patina, some malachite deposits, good detail

History: Sibyls were the prophetesses presiding over the Apollonian oracle at Erythrae in Ionia, one of them, Herophile, was born in Marpessos, small town claimed by Gergis.

Article Number: 035-04-04-41652