Triton XVII, Lot: 246. Estimate $2000. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PAPHLAGONIA, Amastris. Circa 285-250 BC. AR Double Siglos – Stater (23mm, 9.56 g, 11h). 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 held in both hands, and cradling lotus-tipped scepter in left arm; rose to left, AMAΣTPEIΩN to right. Callataÿ, Premier 39c (D16/R17 – this coin); HGC 7, 356; SNG BM Black Sea 1302 = SNG von Aulock 6800 (same obv. die); Boston MFA 1361 (same obv. die). Near EF, toned, a little off center, slight die shift on obverse.

Ex Spink Numismatic Circular LXXXI/9 (September 1973), no. 6871; A. Cahn 68 (26 November 1930), lot 1422 (incorrect weight noted); Consul Eduard Friedrich Weber Collection (J. Hirsch XXI, 16 November 1908), lot 2291.