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cn coin 68671

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CN Type 23989 🔍

Mint
Sinope 🔍  
Date

c. 330-300 BC

Classical/Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of nymphe Sinope, left, wearing sphendone.
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Symbol
aplustre (position: on the left)
Reverse
Legend
ΣΙΝΩ ΣΩΣΤΡΑ
Design
Sea-eagle on dolphin standing left.
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Persons

Magistrate: Sostratos 🔍

Pecularities

chisel cut

Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Aeginetan
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 21 mm / Min: 19 mm
Weight
5.97 g
Axis
6
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18280089

Provenience: Löbbecke 1906

Citation

Waddington et al., Recueil général des monnaies grecques d'Asie Mineure. Pont et Paphlagenie 1.1, Paris 1925   (Magistrate name misread as Σωσια)  ❐

Literature

Waddington et al., Recueil général des monnaies grecques d'Asie Mineure. Pont et Paphlagenie 1.1, Paris 1925 nr. 22 (magistrate name misread as Σωσια)  ❐

Aulock and Franke, Sylloge nummorum graecorum Deutschland. Sammlung v. Aulock. Nachträge I. Pontus 6674-6790, Armenia Minor 6791-6792, Paphlagonien 6793-6877, Bithynien 6878-7190, Berlin 1967 nr. 6854 (magistrate name misread as Σωσιπα)  ❐

Web Reference: https://ikmk.smb.museum/object?id=18280089 ❐

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cn coin 68671, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_68671 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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