CIMMERIAN BOSPOROS. Nymphaion. Circa 400 BC. Diobol (Silver, 10.5 mm, 1.63 g, 9 h). Head of a nymph to left, her hair bound in a sakkos. Rev. NYN Bunch of grapes on a vine branch with leaves and tendrils; all within a shallow incuse square. Anokhin 949. Frolova Type I, 2-5. HGC 7, 13. MacDonald 86. SNG Stancomb 508. Very rare. Well centered and complete, of excellent style and unusually attractive. Good very fine. The way the grape vine is shown on this coin - coming out from a trunk somewhere off to the right, beyond the field of the coin - is very painterly. It is shown as if it were seen through a window, a technique that only became common on coins with Papal issues of the 17th century!