Paphlagonia, Sinope Æ20. Time of Mithradates VI, circa 95-90 or 80-70 BC. Laureate head of Zeus to right / Eagle standing to left on thunderbolt, head turned right; ΣINΩΠHΣ below, TAE monogram to left. SNG Stancomb 802 (this coin); SNG BM Black Sea 1547-1549; HGC 7, 421. 8.96g, 20mm, 12h.
Extremely Fine.
From the William Stancomb Collection; this coin published in Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume XI, The William Stancomb Collection of Coins of the Black Sea Region (Oxford, 2000);
Acquired from V. Gadoury, 1987.