Drachm - Hikesios

Features

Issuer	Sinope (Paphlagonia)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	330 BC - 300 BC
Value	Drachm (1)
Currency	Persic siglos/drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	4.97 g
Diameter	18 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 562981
References	SNG BM Black Sea# 1487 Martin Jessop Price; 1993. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum (Great Britain) / Volume 9.1. The British Museum. Part 1: The Black Sea. British Museum, London, United Kingdom. , SNG Stancomb# 774 William M. Stancomb; 2000. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Great Britain / Volume 11. The William Stancomb Collection of Coins of the Black Sea region. Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom. , HGC 7# 399 Oliver D. Hoover; 2012. Handbook of Coins of Northern and Central Anatolia / Volume 7: Pontos, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, Phrygia, Galatia, Lykaonia, and Kappadokia (with Kolchis and the Kimmerian Bosporos): Fifth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States / London, United Kingdom.

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Obverse

Head of nymph left, hair in sakkos.

Reverse

Sea-eagle with spread wings standing on a dolphin to left.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
ΙΚΕΣΙΟ
ΣΙΝΩ

Mint

Sinope, Paphlagonia, modern-day Sinp, Turkey

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (330 BC - 300 BC)							$ 360	$ 870

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SNG BM Black Sea 1487

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	MDC Monaco Auction 16 Lot 536	3 Jun 2025	XF (NGC Choice XF 4/5 - 5/5)	USD 871.92 (EUR 750.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Aufhauser 8, November 9, 1991, lot 89; Lanz 66, November 22, 1993, lot 229
© MDC Monaco Monnaies de Collection sarl
	Roma Numismatics E-Sale 74 Lot 193	20 Aug 2020	XF	USD 456.86 (GBP 340.00) (+ buyer's premium)
From the William Stancomb Collection = SNG Stancomb 774
© Roma Numismatics Limited
	CNG Mail Bid Sale 63 Lot 396	21 May 2003	XF	USD 270.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	Leu Numismatik Web Auction 17 Lot 962	14 Aug 2021	VF	USD 569.74 (CHF 450.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Leu Numismatik
	CNG Electronic Auction 461 Lot 92	12 Feb 2020	VF	USD 90.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	CNG Electronic Auction 238 Lot 117	11 Aug 2010	VF	USD 360.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.