Ex Gallice and Burel Collections

CNG 90, Lot: 565. Estimate $7500. Sold for $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PAPHLAGONIA, Amastris. Circa 285-250 BC. AR Stater (24mm, 9.56 g, 12h). Head of Mithras right, wearing Persian mitra adorned with laurel wreath and star / Aphrodite seated left, holding Nike, who crowns her with wreath, in extended right hand, left arm resting on throne; rose to left, lotus-tipped scepter behind throne, monogram below. Callataÿ, Premier, Group 2, 20b (D8/R1 – this coin); RG 11; SNG Copenhagen –; Boston MFA 1362 (same dies). Near EF, attractive old gray toning with golden iridescence around the devices. Well centered strike from dies of fine style.

Ex Nomos FPL (Winter-Spring 2011), no. 65; Gallice Collection (E. Bourgey, 5 December 1932), lot 203; Gustave Burel Collection (Feuardent Frères, 11 June 1913), lot 254.