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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;randygeki, post: 1483087, member: 13719&quot;]Here&#039;s number 7 I guess <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> It&#039;s a type I have not seen many of. I really like the style of the obv. and the metal has an interesting color to it&nbsp; (more so in hand).</p><p><br /></p><p>Pontos, Amisos. Circa 85-65 BC. </p><p>Æ 21 mm </p><p>Bust of Amazon right, wearing wolfskin headdress / AMISOU, Nike walking right, holding wreath in right hand, palm over left shoulder. SNG BMC Black Sea 1218-1219; SNG Stancomb 704; SNG Copenhagen 165. </p><p><br /></p><p>Heres a shot of a nicer one</p><p><a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sg/sg3641.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sg/sg3641.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sg/sg3641.html</a></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>&quot;Amisos was settled c. 760 - 750 B.C. by people from Miletus, who established a flourishing trade relationship with the ancient peoples of Anatolia. Amisos came under the rule of the Persian Empire, Alexander the Great&#039;s Macedonian Empire, and then the Kingdom of Pontus. The Romans took control in 47 B.C. and Amisos remained within the Byzantine Empire after the fall of Rome. In 1200, the city was captured by the Seljuks, to be later taken over by the Ilhanlilar. Amisos today is Samsun, a city of about half a million people on the north coast of Turkey.&quot;</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Minted during the reign of Mithridates VI who was king of Pontus and Armenia Minor in northern Anatolia (now Turkey) from about 120 BC to 63 BC. Mithridates is remembered as one of the Roman Republic’s most formidable and successful enemies, who engaged three of the prominent generals from the late Roman Republic in the Mithridatic Wars: Lucius Cornelius <u>Sulla</u>, Lucullus and <u>Pompey</u>.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridates_VI_of_Pontus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridates_VI_of_Pontus" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridates_VI_of_Pontus</a></p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;According to ancient myths the delta east of Samsun was the land of the Amazons. The geographer Strabo (64 BC-21 AD) describes the Amazons as a people of female warriors. In order to shoot easily with bow and arrow they had one of their breast removed. The Amazons used men from neighboring peoples to reproduce themselves and male children were sent to neighboring peoples. The myths situate the period of the Amazons about 1200 BC.&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Cities/AmisosSamsun.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Cities/AmisosSamsun.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Cities/AmisosSamsun.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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