Æ17 ΔΙΟΝΥΣ ΟΠΟΛΕΙTΩΝ

Dionysopolis, a Greek colonial city on the western Black Sea coast in what is now Bulgaria, issued bronze coinage across a long civic period that stretched through shifting political allegiances — first under Pontic influence during Mithridates VI's expansion in the 1st century BC, then absorbed into the Roman province of Moesia. SNG Stancomb 117 places this piece within a recognized sequence, though the two-century attribution window reflects genuine uncertainty about when civic bronze production paused or resumed under each successive authority.