Sinope was the dominant Greek colonial city on the Black Sea's southern coast, and its silver coinage circulated widely through Pontic trade networks from at least the fifth century. The magistrate name partially preserved here — Kallia[...] — follows the city's well-documented practice of naming a single responsible official on each issue, a system that allows modern die studies to establish rough sequences even where dates are absent. The SNG Black Sea corpus has been the primary tool for untangling these sequences, though many magistrate attributions remain incomplete due to die wear and legend truncation on surviving specimens.
Sinope was the dominant Greek colonial city on the Black Sea's southern coast, and its silver coinage circulated widely through Pontic trade networks from at least the fifth century. The magistrate name partially preserved here — Kallia[...] — follows the city's well-documented practice of naming a single responsible official on each issue, a system that allows modern die studies to establish rough sequences even where dates are absent. The SNG Black Sea corpus has been the primary tool for untangling these sequences, though many magistrate attributions remain incomplete due to die wear and legend truncation on surviving specimens.