Ex Hunt and Von Aulock Collections

CNG 106, Lot: 293. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PAPHLAGONIA, Amastris. Queen Amastris. Circa 300-285 BC. AR Double Siglos – Stater (20.5mm, 9.65 g, 12h). Head of Mên right, wearing Phrygian cap adorned with laurel wreath / BAΣIΛIΣΣHΣ AMAΣTPIOΣ, Aphrodite seated left, holding in extended right hand Nike, who crowns her with wreath, and cradling lotus-tipped scepter in left arm. Callataÿ, Premier, Group 1B, 18a (D6/R7) = Hunt IV 301 = SNG von Aulock 6799 (this coin); RG 2; cf. HGC 7, 353–354; SNG BM Black Sea 1299 = SNG von Aulock 1979. VF, toned. Very rare.

Ex Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Part IV, Sotheby’s, 19 June 1991), lot 308; Hans von Aulock Collection, 6799; Spink Numismatic Circular LXIII.11 (November 1955), no. 19941.