Drachm - Dio...

Features

Issuer	Sinope (Paphlagonia)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	330 BC - 300 BC
Value	Drachm (1)
Currency	Persic siglos/drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	5.01 g
Diameter	17 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 563298
References	SNG BM Black Sea# 1484 Martin Jessop Price; 1993. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum (Great Britain) / Volume 9.1. The British Museum. Part 1: The Black Sea. British Museum, London, United Kingdom. , SNG Stancomb# 772 William M. Stancomb; 2000. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Great Britain / Volume 11. The William Stancomb Collection of Coins of the Black Sea region. Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom. , SNG France# 499 Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum France (8 volumes). , Traité II# 2949 Ernest Babelon; 1910. Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines / Partie 2.2. Description historique: Comprenant les monnaies de l'empire des Perses Achéménides, de l'orient sémitique et de l'Asie-mineure aux Ve et IVe siècles avant J.-C.. Éditions Ernest Leroux, Paris, France. , HGC 7# 399 Oliver D. Hoover; 2012. Handbook of Coins of Northern and Central Anatolia / Volume 7: Pontos, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, Phrygia, Galatia, Lykaonia, and Kappadokia (with Kolchis and the Kimmerian Bosporos): Fifth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States / London, United Kingdom. , Waddington# 172 Ernest Babelon; 1898. Inventaire sommaire de la collection Waddington: Acquise par l'État en 1897 pour le département des Médailles et Antiques de la Bibliothèque Nationale. Rollin & Feuardent, Paris, France.

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Obverse

Head of the nymph Sinope to left, her hair bound in a sakkos.

Reverse

Sea-eagle with spread wings standing on a dolphin to left.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
ΔΙΟY
ΣΙΝΩ

Mint

Sinope, Paphlagonia, modern-day Sinp, Turkey

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (330 BC - 300 BC)								$ 830

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Examples of the type

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SNG BM Black Sea 1484

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Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum France 7 n° 499; Waddington 172

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Numismatica Ars Classica Autumn Sale 2025 Lot 2325	9 Nov 2025	XF	USD 822.95 (CHF 650.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG
	Roma Numismatics Auction XIX Lot 159	26 Mar 2020	XF	USD 1478.07 (GBP 1100.00) (+ buyer's premium)
From the William Stancomb Collection and Sinob Hoard (IGCH 1240), 1968 = SNG Stancomb 772
© Roma Numismatics Limited
	Nomos AG Auction 35 Lot 355	15 Jun 2025	XF	USD 822.95 (CHF 650.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Nomos AG
	CNG Mail Bid Sale 63 Lot 395	21 May 2003	XF	USD 225.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.