Before cleaning this ancient Greek coin, I decided to post it after noticing the letter Sigma on reverse to the right of a standing lady wearing a short robe. The obverse shows a face that reminds me of the mythological medussa. I'm being offered many of these Greek coins before Christmas. Your opinion might direct me to the suitable decision. The coin weighs 6.84 g. Thank you..
Thanks Steve for this remark. At least I now know that there's a region named Paphlagonia. Here's a new coin probably from Sinope. The obverse is either a facing Gorgon SNG Black Sea 1177 or an Aegis SNG Cop 309 v. These two measure 21 mm. and 22 mm.respectively. Mine measures only 15 mm. but weighs 7.21 g. I also found out that these coins are rare and expensive, even at low condition. They have Nike heading right on reverse.
I am really of the opinion that any coin issued by more than one city but in low enough grade not to be certain which city it was does not qualify as 'rare and expensive'. Mine is Kabeira which is less common than Amisos or Sinope but was not a special item in its grade when I bought it for $9 mostly due to the headless Nike, I suspect. I may be unreasonable but coins that are not identifiable are not identifiable without a 'probably' are not worth much. I believe I see enough on both coins to ID them as Amisos but that may be imagination at work. Like this? http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3158
Here's a better one in condition, lettering and patina. Amisos- Pontus Obverse : Head of young Ares right Reverse : Sword in Sheath, Monogram, star and Crescent 8 g . 17mm