Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 630. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PAPHLAGONIA, Amastris. Circa 300-288 BC. AR Didrachm (9.30 gm). Struck in the name of Queen Amastris. Head of Amastris right, wearing Persian headdress with wreath; bow in bowcase behind / BASILISSHS AMASTRIOS, Aphrodite seated left, holding Eros, who crowns her; sceptre leaning against throne. Waddington, RG pg. 135, 1; SNG BM Black Sea 1297; SNG Copenhagen Supp. 288. VF, toned, minor porosity. ($500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.