21171 - Sinope (AE Zeus/eagle) over Pontic type (Aegis/Nike) (USA, private coll.)

Metal: Bronze	Weight in grams: 6.316.31 g <br />6,310 mg <br />	Denomination: tetrachalkon	Axis: 1111 mm <br />1.1 cm <br />
Diameter: 2222 mm <br />2.2 cm <br />

Coin reference:		Coin series reference:	"[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]1SNG BM Black Sea, no. 1543-1549, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2HGC 7, n° 421
Coin series web reference:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/sinope.waddington.1925.60

Aegis with Gorgoneion in centre.

Nike advancing right, wearing chiton, holding wreath and palm. In field, monograms.

Mint ^ᵖ:

Pontus

From 95 BCE to 85 BCE

Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

tetrachalkon

Coin type reference ^ᵖ:	"[[Coin series reference overstruck" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2HGC 7, n° 242
Coin series web reference overstruck:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/amisus.waddington.1925.44

Frequency of overstrikes:	exceptional	Level of confidence:	sure
Remarks:

References

^ Price, Martin J. (1993), Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume IX, British Museum, Part 1: The Black Sea, London, [132] p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
a b Hoover, Oliver D. (2012), Handbook of Greek Coinages. 7. Coins of northern and Central Anatolia - Pontos, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, Phrygia, Galatia, lykaonia, and Kappadokia (with Kolchis and the Kimmerian bosporos), Lancaster, lxxxii, 352 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.