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<p>[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 2805471, member: 42773"]<b>Amastris</b> was one of the coastal cities of Paphlagonia, a region of northern Asia Minor, on the southern coast of the Black Sea...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]655242[/ATTACH]</p><p><i><font size="4"><br /></font></i></p><p><i><font size="4">The younger Pliny, when he was governor of Bithynia and Pontus, describes Amastris, in a letter to Trajan, as a handsome city, with a very long open place (platea), on one side of which extended what was called a river, but in fact was a filthy, pestilent, open drain. Pliny obtained the emperor's permission to cover over this sewer. On a coin of the time of Trajan, Amastris has the title Metropolis. It continued to be a town of some note to the seventh century of our era. </font></i><font size="4">-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amasra" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amasra" rel="nofollow">wiki</a></font></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amasra" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amasra" rel="nofollow"></a></p><p>Here is a bronze of Lucius Verus from Amastris, Salus reverse. The coin is quite worn and patinated, but also quite rare. As another collector noted, sometimes you have to take what you can get from the more obscure cities. It does have the virtue of showing the complete name of the city on the reverse, AMACTPIANΩN...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]655245[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 2805471, member: 42773"][B]Amastris[/B] was one of the coastal cities of Paphlagonia, a region of northern Asia Minor, on the southern coast of the Black Sea... [ATTACH=full]655242[/ATTACH] [I][SIZE=4] The younger Pliny, when he was governor of Bithynia and Pontus, describes Amastris, in a letter to Trajan, as a handsome city, with a very long open place (platea), on one side of which extended what was called a river, but in fact was a filthy, pestilent, open drain. Pliny obtained the emperor's permission to cover over this sewer. On a coin of the time of Trajan, Amastris has the title Metropolis. It continued to be a town of some note to the seventh century of our era. [/SIZE][/I][SIZE=4]-[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amasra']wiki[/URL][/SIZE] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amasra'][/URL] Here is a bronze of Lucius Verus from Amastris, Salus reverse. The coin is quite worn and patinated, but also quite rare. As another collector noted, sometimes you have to take what you can get from the more obscure cities. It does have the virtue of showing the complete name of the city on the reverse, AMACTPIANΩN... [ATTACH=full]655245[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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