Hemidrachm

Hemidrachm - obverseHemidrachm - reverse

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Features

Issuer Sinope (Paphlagonia)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 306 BC - 290 BC
Value Hemidrachm (½)
Currency Drachm
Composition Silver
Weight 2.31 g
Diameter 12 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
150858
References HGC 7# 410,
Oliver D. Hoover; 2012. The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series / Volume 7. Handbook of Coins of Northern and Central Anatolia, Pontos, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, Phrygia, Galatia, Lykaonia, and Kappadokia (with Kolchis and the Kimmerian Bosporos) : Fifth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania - London, United Kingdom.
GCV# 3700,
David R. Sear; 2004. Greek Coins and Their Values / Volume 1. Europe. Seaby, London, United Kingdom.
And 1 more volumes.
SNG von Aulock 1 PPB# 221,
Gerhard Kleiner; 1957. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Deutschland / Hefte 1-3. Pontus, Paphlagonien, Bithynien : Sammlung von Aulock. Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
And 1 more volumes.
SNG BM Black Sea# 1506-1507
Martin Jessop Price; 1993. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum (Great Britain) / Volume 9.1. The British Museum. Part 1 : The Black Sea. British Museum Press, London, United Kingdom.

Obverse

Female head left, wearing turreted crown.

Reverse

Prow of galley left; star on galley, aplustre and monogram before.

Script: Greek

Edge

Plain

Mint

Sinope, Paphlagonia, modern-day Sinp, Turkey

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (306 BC - 290 BC) 

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