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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Paphlagonia| > GB02004
Sinope, Paphlagonia, 85 - 65 B.C.
|Paphlagonia|, |Sinope,| |Paphlagonia,| |85| |-| |65| |B.C.|, Long used as a Hittite port, Sinope was re-founded as a Greek colony by Miletus in the 7th century B.C. Sinope flourished as the Black Sea port of a caravan route that led from the upper Euphrates valley. The city escaped Persian domination until the early 4th century B.C. In 183 B.C. it was captured by Pharnaces I and became the capital of the kingdom of Pontus. Lucullus conquered Sinope for Rome in 70 B.C., and Julius Caesar established a Roman colony there, Colonia Julia Felix, in 47 B.C. It remained with the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantines). It was a part of the Empire of Trebizond from the sacking of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204 until the capture of the city by the Seljuk Turks of Rûm in 1214.
GB02004. Bronze AE 19, SNG Stancomb 801 - 802; SNG BM 1547 ff.; SNGvA 229; BMC Pontus p. 99, 40 - 41, aEF, Sinope (Sinop, Turkey) mint, weight 7.45g, maximum diameter 18.5mm, die axis 0o, 85 - 65 B.C.; obverse laureate head of Zeus right; reverse ΣINOΠHΣ, eagle standing left on thunderbolt, head right, wings open, ETA monogram left; SOLD











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