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The Prospero Collection of Ancient Greek Coins. PAPHLAGONIA. Amastris (c.285-250 B.C.), Silver Didrachm, 9.16g,. Head of Amastris facing to right, wearing a Persian headdress ornamented with a wreath and a star. Rev. AMAΣTPIEΩN , Aphrodite seated to left, wearing a polos, a sceptre leaning against her left hand, and holding Nike in her outstretched right hand, who crowns her with a wreath, a rose bud on left (SNG BM Black Sea 1302; SNG Stancomb 731; SNG von Aulock 6800; Dewing 2123; SNG Copenhagen 244). Attractively toned, good very fi ne. Amastris was a niece of Darios III of Persia and, after the death of Alexander the Great, she had become the wife of Alexander’s general Krateros. Her second marriage was to Dionysos, the tyrant of Herakleia and, following his death, she married Lysimachos of Thrace. After he rejected her in favour of Arsinoe, the daughter of Ptolemy I of Egypt, Amastris retired to Herakleia, where she founded the city which struck this coin. US$ 2,000
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