Hemidrachm
Greek
Sinope
Paphlagonia
Black Sea Area
Asia Minor
Middle East
306-290 BCE
Silver
Diameter: 1/2 in. (13.4 mm)
Weight: 2.34 g
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Arthur Fairbanks, Class of 1886, in memory of his father, Henry Fairbanks, Class of 1853
27.1.29635
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: Turreted wavy-haired head of Sinope left
Reverse: Prow of ship left, aplustre to left; six rayed star on ship;
Provenance
Arthur Fairbanks (1864-1944), Class of 1886; given to present collection, 1927.
Catalogue Raisonne
BMC Pontus: no. 28 p. 98; Grose Vol. III: no. 7427, p. 18, pl. 253.5; Head, p. 434
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