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Amisos, Pontos, c. 85 - 65 B.C.
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'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.GB83921. Bronze AE 20, SNG BM 1227; SNG Stancomb 706; SNGvA 56; BMC Pontus p. 15, 27; SNG Cop 135 var. (star right), VF, well centered, nice dark patina with earthen highlighting, slight corrosion, Amisos (Samsun, Turkey) mint, weight 7.910g, maximum diameter 20.3mm, die axis 0o, c. 85 - 65 B.C.; obverse laureate head of Zeus right; reverse AMIΣOY, eagle standing half left on thunderbolt, head turned back right, wings open, monogram left; SOLD
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