Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XIX 26-27 Mar 2020
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Paphlagonia, Amastris AR Didrachm. Circa 285-250 BC. Head of Amastris right, wearing Persian headdress ornamented with wreath and star / AMAΣTPIEΩN to right of Aphrodite seated to left, wearing a polos, sceptre leaning against left hand, holding Nike in outstretched right hand, who crowns her with a wreath; rose bud to left. SNG Stancomb 731 (this coin) = Ward 587 (this coin) = Callataÿ, pp. 57-86, 34 (D16/R12, this coin); Recueil général I, 5; HGC 7, 356. 9.56g, 23mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine. 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;
This coin published in J. Ward and G.F. Hill, Greek coins and their parent cities, John Ward Collection, (London, 1902);
Ex J. Ward Collection, Sotheby's Zürich, 4 April 1973, lot 494.
Good Very Fine. 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;
This coin published in J. Ward and G.F. Hill, Greek coins and their parent cities, John Ward Collection, (London, 1902);
Ex J. Ward Collection, Sotheby's Zürich, 4 April 1973, lot 494.