PAPHLAGONIA, Amastris. Circa 285-250 BC. AR Stater (23mm, 8.68 g, 12h). Head of Mên right, wearing Phrygian cap decorated with laurel branch and star / Aphrodite seated left, holding in extended right hand Nike, who crowns her with wreath, and cradling lotus-tipped scepter in left arm; rose to left. Callataÿ, Premier, Group 2, 42a (D17/R20 – this coin); RG 5; HGC 7, 356. Toned, some scratches, area of weak strike on reverse. VF.
Ex Coin Galleries (15 October 1955), lot 377.