Watch List notes:

PAPHLAGONIA, Sinope. Circa 275 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 17.03 g, 11h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; no control marks. Price 1275A (same obv. die as illustration of 1276); Newell, Sinope –; Black Sea Hoard 325–6 var. (with control marks, but same obv. die [OC]). Good VF, toned, small nick on obverse. Very rare issue, only five in CoinArchives.


From the collection of Dr. Will Gordon.