Paphlagonia, Amastris Æ20. Pseudo-autonomous issue. 2nd century AD. OMHPOC, bearded bust of the poet Homer, right / [A]MATCPIANΩN, River-god Meles reclining left, holding lyre in right hand and reed in left hand; MEΛHC in exergue. SNG Stancomb 1053 (this coin); Recueil général I, 42. pl. 19, 2; BMC 16; cf. SNG Copenhagen 251 (Æ 28). 5.94g, 20mm, 6h.
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);
Acquired from A. H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd, 1975;
Noted as ex 'Hellier', with old collector's ticket.