Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XVIII 29 Sep 2019
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Paphlagonia, Amastris AR Stater. In the name of Queen Amastris, circa 300-285 BC. Head of Mên right, wearing Phrygian cap adorned with laurel wreath; [bow-in-bowcase] behind / Aphrodite (Anahita) veiled and seated to left on throne against which leans a sceptre, Eros stands on her outstretched right hand, holding up wreath to bust of radiate Helios facing; ΑΜΑΣΤΡΙΟΣ to right, ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΗΣ to left. SNG Stancomb 728 (this coin) = F. de Callataÿ, Premier, p. 66, 8 (D3/R8, this coin); HGC 7, 352. 9.48g, 22mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine. Very Rare.
From the William Stancomb Collection; this coin published in Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume XI, The William Stancomb Collection of Coins of the Black Sea Region (Oxford, 2000);
This coin published in F. de Callataÿ, Le premier monnayage de la cité d'Amastris (Paphlagonie), in SNR 83 (2004);
Acquired from Spink & Son Ltd., January 1985 (reportedly from a hoard of Herakleia and Amastris).
Good Very Fine. Very Rare.
From the William Stancomb Collection; this coin published in Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume XI, The William Stancomb Collection of Coins of the Black Sea Region (Oxford, 2000);
This coin published in F. de Callataÿ, Le premier monnayage de la cité d'Amastris (Paphlagonie), in SNR 83 (2004);
Acquired from Spink & Son Ltd., January 1985 (reportedly from a hoard of Herakleia and Amastris).