CNG 93, Lot: 340. Estimate $7500. Sold for $11000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PAPHLAGONIA, Amastris. Circa 285-250 BC. AR Stater (23mm, 9.53 g, 11h). 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 cradling lotus-tipped scepter and resting on throne; rose bud to left, AMAΣTPIEΩN to right. Callataÿ, Premier 25a (D13/R5 – this coin); RG 5; SNG von Aulock 152; SNG BM Black Sea 1302; SNG Stancomb 731; SNG Copenhagen 244; Dewing 2123 (same obv. die). Near EF, toned. Exceptional for issue.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 78 (14 May 2008), lot 751; Sunrise Collection (Triton X, 9 January 2007), lot 263; Robert Schonwalter Collection (Triton V, 15 January 2002), lot 1400; Coin Galleries (18 August 1978), lot 282; Coin Galleries (20 April 1961), lot 132; Ars Classica 14 (2 July 1929), lot 298.