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Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III
| Issuer | Sinope (Paphlagonia) |
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| Year | 230 BC - 200 BC |
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| Weight | 16.88 g |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ A ΣΙ |
| Edge | Plain |
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Sinope's adoption of the Alexandrine tetradrachm type came well after the city had passed through the hands of Mithridates I of Pontus, who seized it around 302 BC. By the time these coins were struck, Sinope functioned as the dominant commercial port on the Black Sea's southern coast, and the posthumous Alexander coinage served the city's extensive grain and timber trade with Greek colonies throughout the Pontic region. The HGC 7 listing places this issue among a small cluster of Paphlagonian municipal coinages that retained the Alexander type unusually late into the third century.