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Asia Minor: Amisos
Bronze (22mm, 7.85 gm.) Time of Mithradates VI, circa 119-63 B.C.
Reference: Sear 3642; B.M.C. 13. 20,74
Aegis, with Gorgon's head at center.
Nike advancing right, carrying palm-branch; ΑΜΙ - ΣΟΥ across field; monograms to  left and to right.

Amisos was a flourishing Greek city on the Black Sea coast commanding an  important trade route to the south, Amisos was founded in the 6th century B.C.  It was re-settled by Athenians in the following century and they renamed the  place Peiraeus.