Drachm
Greek
Sinope
Paphlagonia
Black Sea Area
Asia Minor
Middle East
333-306 BCE
Silver
Diameter: 3/4 in. (18.6 mm)
Weight: 5.8 g
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Arthur Fairbanks, Class of 1886, in memory of his father, Henry Fairbanks, Class of 1853
27.1.29633
Geography
Place Made: Eastern Mediterranean, Turkey, West Asia, Asia
Period
1000 BCE-1 CE
Object Name
Coin
Research Area
Numismatics: Greek and Roman
Not on view
Inscriptions
Obverse: Sphendoned head of Sinope left; aplustre inside spaced dotted boreder; Triple drop earring, beaded (worn) necklace, coin cut at neck, berries in hair?
Reverse: Sea-eagle above dolphin left; separated feathers;
Provenance
Arthur Fairbanks (1864-1944), Class of 1886; given to present collection, 1927.
Catalogue Raisonne
Grose, Vol. III: pl. 252.20-23 esp. 22; BMC Pontus: nos. 11-20, p. 96, pl. XXII/3 for date; Head, p. 433; BM Guide pl. X/20; Babelon, Traite, pl. CLXXXV/1-3
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