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Features

Issuer	Amastris (Paphlagonia)
Królowa	Amastris (300 BC - 284 BC)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	300 BC - 285 BC
Value	2 Sigloi
Currency	Persic siglos/drachm
Composition	Srebro
Weight	9.29 g
Diameter	22 mm
Shape	Okrągły (nieregularny)
Technique	Młotkowana
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 441504
References	Callataÿ Amastris# 40-41 François de Callataÿ; 2004. “Le premier monnayage de la cité d'Amastris (Paphlagonie)”, Schweizerische Numismatische Rundschau = Revue Suisse de Numismatique = Rivista Svizzera di Numismatica (Swiss Numismatic Review), Volume 83, pages 57-86. , Jameson# 1368 Robert Jameson. Collection R. Jameson. Feuardent, Paris, France (4 volumes). , Gulbenkian# 952 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (publisher). A Catalogue of the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection of Greek Coins. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal (2 volumes). , Bement# 1344 William S. Kundig (ed.); 1924. Collection Clarence S. Bement / Monnaies grecques antiques en or et en argent. Naville & Cie, Geneva, Switzerland (2 volumes). , Du Chastel# 246 François de Callataÿ, Johan van Heesch; 1999. Greek and Roman Coins from the Du Chastel Collection: Coin Cabinet of the Royal Library of Belgium. Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom. , Pozzi# 2107 Naville & Cie (publisher); 1920. Monnaies grecques antiques: Provenant de la collection de feu le prof. S. Pozzi = Ancient Greek coins. Naville & Cie, Luzern, Switzerland. , Recueil# 5 William Henry Waddington, Ernest Babelon, Théodore Reinach. Recueil général des monnaies grecques d'Asie mineure. Éditions Ernest Leroux, Paris, France (4 volumes). , HGC 7# 356 Oliver D. Hoover; 2012. Handbook of Coins of Northern and Central Anatolia / Volume 7: Pontos, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, Phrygia, Galatia, Lykaonia, and Kappadokia (with Kolchis and the Kimmerian Bosporos): Fifth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States / London, United Kingdom. , SNG Ashmolean# 204 Oxford University Press (publisher). Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume V - Ashmolean Museum. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (7 volumes).

Obverse

Głowa Mên w prawo, w czapce frygijskiej ozdobionej gałązką lauru i gwiazdą. Automatically translated

Reverse

Afrodyta siedzi w lewo, trzymając w wyciągniętej prawej ręce Nike, która koronuje ją wieńcem i trzyma berło zakończone lotosem w lewym ramieniu; róża w lewo, A poniżej tronu. Automatically translated

Script: grecki

Lettering:
ΑΜΑΣΤΡΙEΩN
Α

Mint

Amastris, Paphlagonia, modern-day Amasra, Turkey

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (300 BC - 285 BC)							$ 1700

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: CNG Electronic Auction 458 Lot 93	18 Dec 2019	VF (NGC Choice VF 4/5 - 3/5)	USD 550.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	Gemini Auction VII Lot 439	9 Jan 2011	VF	USD 800.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Gemini Numismatic Auctions LLC
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Gorny & Mosch Auction 265 Lot 342	14 Oct 2019	VF	USD 1728.76 (EUR 1500.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Gorny & Mosch GmbH Giessener Münzhandlung
	Hess Divo Auction 314 Lot 1135	4 May 2009	VF	USD 2197.88 (CHF 1750.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Bourgey, March 11, 1985, 30; Bourgey, February 24, 1983, 72; Sotheby's Zurich, May 27, 1974, 309; Myers-Adams 6, December 6, 1973, 165; Naville 1, April 4, 1921 (Pozzi), 2107 = Pozzi 2107 = Callataÿ Amastris 40c
© Hess Divo
	Gorny & Mosch Auction 253 Lot 178	5 Mar 2018	VF	USD 2189.76 (EUR 1900.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Gorny & Mosch GmbH Giessener Münzhandlung