★ Amazon Wearing Wolf's Skin Headdress ★

PONTOS. Amisos. Time of Mithradates VI Eupator, circa 85-65 BC. (Bronze, 19 mm, 7.20 g, 12 h). Bust of Amazon to right, wearing wolf's skin headdress. Rev. AMI-ΣOY Nike advancing to right, holding palm branch over far shoulder in left hand and wreath in right; to left, star and crescent. HGC 7, 244. SNG Black Sea 1218. Green patina with light earthen deposits. Very fine.