Pontos, Amisos Æ20. Circa 85-65 BC. Young male head right, wearing crested helmet / AMI-ΣO[Y] across fields; sword in sheath; eight-rayed star above crescent left above; IB right; monogram left below; monogram right below. SNG Stancomb 678 (this coin); cf. SNG BM Black Sea 1159; HGC 7, 241. 7.44g, 20mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
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 John Morcom, 1971.