Pontos, uncertain mint (Amisos?) Æ 21mm. Late 1st century BC. Bare male head (Octavian or quaestor?) to left; Q below / Bare male head (Caesar?) to right; ΑΜΙ-ΣΟΥ across fields. RPC I 2156A; Naumann 88, 395 (same dies); Nomos 18, 288 (same dies, hammer: CHF 4,200). 7.59g, 20mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine; featuring two wonderful, enigmatic portraits. Exceedingly Rare; seemingly just the third known example of the type and arguably finer than the Nomos example that sold for CHF 4,200.
From a private European collection.
See P. Sánchez’s “Une émission monétaire inédite d’Amisos, ciuitas libera et foederata sous le Principat” (Revue Numismatique 178, 2021, 115-360, for the identification of the portraits as Octavian and Julius Caesar.
Price realized | 800 GBP |
Starting price | 300 GBP |
Estimate | 500 GBP |