SINOPE, PAPHLAGONIA

I recently acquired this from one of our fellow CT family. It's a wonderful looking coin with a beautiful even golden brown patina. The wings on the head of Perseus makes it look like he has a "Rock and Roll" era haircut, much like the ones I grew up with.

SINOPE, PAPHLAGONIA
AE16
OBVERSE: Winged head of young Perseus
REVERSE: SINW-PHS, cornucopiae between two pilei of the Dioskouroi, each surmounted by a star
Struck at Sinope, 120-100 BC
4.09g, 16mm
SNG Cop 306, SNGvA 231, Sear 3713

I just wanted to share it with my CT family. Post any coins you feel appropriate to this thread.

 

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Wow, NICE looking coin! Well centered, great strike... Great patina! I want one of those!

 

Attractive coin. I always like coins of that forgotten little city state at the fringes of the Greek and Roman world, looking out over the wide Black Sea.

 

Well as long as we're sailing along the southern coast of the Black Sea, I have a coin that arrived yesterday from Pharnakeia. A little rugged, but it's got great style. It's even got some die polishing lines in the reverse fields.

 

That is another wonderful coin JA

 

Very nice Bing.

 

Terrific coin @Bing...great centering and details!!!

 

To see a coin with that kind of detail for being over 2100 years old, awesome. love it!!

 

Very nice coin Bing. Rock on! I have only one from Sinope that I would very much like to see a finer example of.



Paphlagonia, Sinope. Hadrian AE17. Athena
Obv: IMP C TRAI HADRIANVS / Laureate bust of Hadrian r.
Rev: C IF ANN CLXVIII (year 168) / Athena standing head l., spear and facing circular shield lowered at her sides.
17mm and 3.86g.
WADD RG S207A,107(1) / COLL PARIS(1)

Thanks to Mark Fox for Identification.

 

great perseus...and i have a "thing" for discouri caps!

 

Beautiful bronze. I had it that on my watchlist but gobbled another cartwheel penny I needed, lower denomination.

 

Lovely coin, Bing.

 

Very nice bronze of Sinope, @Bing. Great portrait, brings back good memories, wish this haircut style was still in fashion

 

Nice !! => wow, that's a very cool OP-Sweetie!!

Yup, I love that coin-type (it has great eye-appeal)

Hey bro, I have an example as well (oh, but it's not a snotty-nosed Sinope)

=> it's merely a humble Pontos-example



I love seeing your new coins

=> Dude, you are amassing an amazing collection, my great coin-friend!!

you rock

 

My only Sinope

Sinope, Paphlagonia, Silver Drachm
Obv:- Head of nymph left, hair in sakkos, wearing triple pendant earring and necklace
Rev:- Eagle with dolphin in talons facing left, ∆ΙΟΥ (magistrate's name) below wing, ΣΙΝΩ below dolphin
Sinope mint, c. 330 - 300 B.C.
Ref:- SNG BM 1484; SNG Stancomb 772; SNG Cop 284
ex Baldwin & Sons, London, ex Forum Ancient Coins

Weight 4.974g, maximum diameter 16.9mm, die axis 180o

 

Sinope? ... oh yah, I forgot to post my own Sinope examples (good call, Martin)

=> I only have a couple of these cool types ...



ΣΙΝΩ Rocks!!

 

Hey Bing, I hope that your Saturday morning is going okay ... everything good?

 

So far. How about you?

 

Looks great!

 

Hope you don't mind me reviving an interesting old thread. I have a small number of Sinope coins, because my father-in-law collected them. This nice dark hemidrachm he bought in an auction (Busso Peus) in Germany in 1972. He paid quite a lot for it, inflation corrected about $ 270.
Hemidrachm, late 4th-early 3rd century BC. Obv. nymph left, hair in a saccus; rev. eagle facing, with SI-NO and monogram PR. 14/15 mm, 2.88 gr.