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Link...Poseidon

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Sicily, Syracuse. Hieron II. 274-216 BC. Æ-Litra (19mm, 6.38g).
Obverse..Diademed head of Poseidon left with border of dots.
Reverse..ΙΕΡΩΝΟΣ, Ornate scroll decorated trident with lotiform shaft flanked by dolphins.
Ref:for type SNG Cop 844-856.

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Sicily, Tauromenion. Circa 339/8-336 BC. Æ Hemilitron (20mm, 4.09g, 1h). Obv: Laureate head of Apollo right. Rev: TAYPOME-NITAN; Kithara; grape bunch above. Ref: CNS III, 14; HGC 2, 1586; Arslan Sicily 1251-1254; SNG Fitz 1463.

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Link: Kithara

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LYDIA. Philadelphia.
Hermippos, son of Hermogenes, archieros.
2nd-1st century BC.
Obv.: Diademed and draped bust of Artemis to right, with bow and quiver over her shoulder.
Rev. ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΕΩΝ - ΑΡΧΙΕΡΩΣ - EPMIΠΠΩΣ / EPMOΓΕΝΟΥΣ, Apollo seated left, holding patera in his right hand and leaning left on kithara; above, owl seated right on back of the throne.
AE, 21mm, 8.88g, 12 h
Ref.: BMC 10. SNG Copenhagen 337-338.

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Link Kithara too...

 

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Lycian Legague, Hemidrachm of the Lycian League Period late 30s-27 BC, Material: Silver, Diameter: 16mm, Weight: 1.67g, Mint: Cragus, Lycia, Reference: RPC I 3312, SNG Copenhagen 60, Troxell Lycia Period IV Series 7 142, Provenance: Ex Roma Numismatic London, Obverse: Laureate head of Apollo right; Λ-Y flanking, Reverse: Cithara in incuse square. The inscription reads: KP for (ΛΥΚΙΩΝ) ΚΡ(ΑΓΟϹ) means Lykion Kragos.
 
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UNO => Lycia

... ummm, take your pick of stuff to use 

 

Lycia, Masikytes AR hemidrachm (below)

1st century BC

Diameter: 12.3 mm

Weight: 0.83 grams

Obverse: Draped bust of Artemis right, quiver at shoulder

Reverse: Quiver; torch to left, uncertain object to right; A - Y, M - A, all within incuse square

Reference: S. 5299

Other: Nice tone

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Lycia, Phaselis AE18 (below)

2nd-1st century BC

Diameter: 18.3 mm

Weight: 4.3 grams

Obverse: Galley with Nike flying over

Reverse: Athena holding thunderbolt

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Lycia, Termessos Minor (below)
AE21, 5.14g, 9h; 1st-century BC
Obv.: Laureate head of Zeus right, scepter behind
Rev.: TEP-MHΣ/ΣE-ΩN; winged thunderbolt; bee countermark.
Reference: BMC 277, 9 (Pisidia). SNG von Aulock 4455

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Link....Laureate head of Apollo. 

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Thessalian League. Around 197-150 BC. AE Trichalcon (7.64 gm, 19mm). Hippolo(chos), magistrates.
Obverse: laureate head of Apollo right.
Reverse: ΘEΣΣA ΛΩN (THESSALON) in two lines, Athena Itonia striding right, hurling spear held in her right hand, shield on her left arm; ΙΠΠ-ΟΛΟ (IPOLLO magistrates name) over spear and A-PI across central field.
BCD Thessaly II, 900.3; Rogers 21.SNG Copenhagen 315.

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Links: Athena Itonia, Koinon of Thessaly.

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Faustina II, AD 147-175.
Roman provincial Æ assarion, 6.04 g, 19.2 mm, 1 h.
Koinon of Thessaly, Larissa, AD 158-165.
Obv: ΦΑVϹΤЄΙΝΑ ϹЄΒΑϹΤΗ; bare-headed and draped bust of Faustina II, right.
Rev: ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΘЄϹϹΑΛⲰΝ; Athena Itonia in snake-adorned aegis, striding right, brandishing spear and holding shield.
Refs: RPC IV.1 4570 (temporary); Rogers 98a, SNG Cop 349; SNG Evelpidis 1685; BCD Thessaly II 966.1 & 966.2.
Notes: Ex-BCD collection. Issued in three denominations: tetrassarion (RPC 4569), diassarion (RPC 4568), and assarion (such as this coin).
 

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Link: Larissa

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Larissa, Thessaly
AR Drachm (380-337 BC. )
Obv.: Head of nymph Larissa facing, head turned slightly to left, wearing ampyx, earring and simple necklace
Rev: [ΛΑ]-Ρ-ΙΣΑ, Hero Thessalos wearing petasos and chlamys, standing right, left foot raised, restraining bridled horse moving right.
Ag, 5.76g, 18mm
Ref.: Lorber, Middle Series III, O1/R4.

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Links: Chlamys, horse, and Thessaly

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Thessaly, Pelinna
Æ Dichalkon (20mm, 7.49g, 12h)
late 4th to early 3rd centuries BCE
Head of Mantho veiled r. R/ Helmeted Thessalian rider wearing chlamys and short tunic, charging r. with couched lance on prancing horse.
BCD Thessaly 534.1; Rogers 432; HGC 4, 275
Ex London Ancient Coins

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11 mm, 0,93 g

Thessaly, Larissa AR Trihemiobol. Circa 356-320 BC. Head of the nymph Larissa facing slightly to left, wearing ampyx and necklace / Thessalian horseman charging to right; ΛΑΡΙΣΑΙΩΝ around. BCD Thessaly II 341; HGC 4, 515.

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Links: Thessaly and BCD Thessaly.

A pair of ex. BCDs. Footnotes omitted.

Thessalian League (under Roman Republic from 146 BCE, Province of Macedonia). Late 2nd-mid 1st centuries BCE, AR Stater ( = Double Victoriatus* = 1.5 denarius), Magistrates Sosipatros and Gorgopas. Obv. Laureate head of Zeus right / Rev. Helmeted Athena Itonia advancing right, holding shield with left hand and preparing to hurl spear with right hand; vertical legend ΘΕΣΣΑ-ΛΩN to left and right of Athena; [ΣΩ]ΣIΠ-ATPOΣ above spear; ΓOPΓΩΠΑΣ in exergue. BCD** Thessaly II 861.2 [CNG, The BCD Collection of the Coinage of Thessaly, Triton XV Auction, Jan. 3, 2012, Lot 861.2 (this coin)]; HGC 4, 209 [Hoover, Oliver, Handbook of Coins of Northern and Central Greece: . . . Thessaly . . . ., Sixth to First Centuries BC, The Handbook of Greek Coinage Thessaly Series, Vol. 4 (2014)]; SNG Soutzos 397 [Tsourti, E. and Trifiro, M.D., Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Greece 5: Numismatic Museum, Athens, The A. G. Soutzos Collection (Athens, 2007)]; Klose pp. 339 & 346, 2 (same dies) [Klose, D.O.A, "Zur Chronologie der thessalischen Koinonprägungen im 2. und 1. Jh. v. Chr., Ein weiterer Schatzfund aus Südthessalien," in Peter, Ulrike. ed., Stephanos nomismatikos: Edith Schönert-Geiss zum 65. Geburtstag (Berlin, 1998), at pp. 333-350]. 22 mm., 6.08 g., 2 h. [According to Basil C. Demetriadi: From Franke Hoard, Greece, found Summer 1983.]

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Thessaly, Thessalian League (under Roman Republic from 146 BCE, Province of Macedonia). Mid-late 1st century BCE, AR Stater ( = Double Victoriatus* = 1.5 denarius), Magistrates Italos and Diokles. Obv. Head of Zeus right, wearing oak wreath, [ITAΛOY] [behind head, off flan] / Rev. Helmeted Athena Itonia advancing right, holding shield with left hand and preparing to hurl spear with right hand; vertical legend ΘΕΣΣΑ-ΛΩN to left and right of Athena; ΔIO-KΛHΣ above spear, N-I across field. BCD** Thessaly II 874.4 [CNG, The BCD Collection of the Coinage of Thessaly, Triton XV Auction, Jan. 3, 2012, Lot 874.4 (this coin)]; HGC 4, 210 [Hoover, Oliver, Handbook of Coins of Northern and Central Greece: . . . Thessaly . . . ., Sixth to First Centuries BC, The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series,Vol. 4 (2014)]; McClean II 4797-4798 [Grose, S., Catalogue of the McClean Collection of Greek Coins, Fitzwilliam Museum, Vol. II, The Greek Mainland, the Aegean islands, Crete (Cambridge, 1926)]. 20 mm., 6.09 g., 12 h. [According to Basil C. Demetriadi: From Hoard found Dec. 1996, West of Karditsa, Thessaly, Greece.]

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Link: Thessaly

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Thessaly, Pharkadon
Hemidrachm, circa 440-400 BC
Obv.: Thessalos, petasos and cloak tied at neck, holding band around head of forepart of bull right
Rev.: Φ A P/K AΔ O around from upper left (K retrograde), forepart of bridled horse right; all within incuse square
Ag, 2.70g, 16mm
Ref.: BCD Thessaly II 603

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Link...Petasos

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Ionia, Phokaia, c. 350-300 BC. Æ (15mm, 4.36g, 11h). Phokleon, magistrate.
Obverse..Head of Hermes facing left wearing a Petasos hat tied at the back.
Reverse..Forepart of a griffin springing left. ΦΩKAEΩN (PHOKAEON), name of the magistrate below.
SNG Copenhagen 1039ff (magistrate); BMC 101.

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Kings of Macedon. Alexander III ‘the Great’, 336-323 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 4.27g, 12h). Miletos mint. Struck under Philoxenos. Circa 325-323 BC. Obv: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin. Rev: ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ; Zeus Aëtophoros seated left, legs crossed; monogram in left field. Ref: Price 2090; ADM I Series I. Good Very Fine, slightly off center. Ex CNG eAuction 418, Lot 69. 

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Links: Names and types of Alexander III, AR Drachm 4.27g (mine is only 16mm). Miletos mint. Struck under Philoxenos. Slightly off center. Circa 325-323 BCE. Price 2090. Ex CNG eAuction.

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Alexander the Great
AR Drachm 16mm, 4.27 g, 12h
Miletos mint. Struck under Philoxenos, circa 325-323 BCE
Price 2090; ADM I Series I. graffito in field on reverse
Ex CNG

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Links: once again, Alexander/Drachm/Miletos Mint.

Macedon, Alexander III (under  Philip III Arrhidaeus), AR Drachm, Miletos mint, 323-319 BCE. Obv. Head of beardless Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress / Rev. Zeus seated left on stool-throne, holding long scepter in left hand, with eagle standing right with closed wings on his right hand; KH monogram (Price Monogram 476) in left field; in right field,  AΛEΞANΔPOY. Price 2121 [Price, M., The Coinage in the Name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus (London, 1991)]; Pella database at http://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.2121?lang=en; Müller 847 [Müller, L., Numismatique d'Alexandre le Grand; Appendice les monnaies de Philippe II et III, et Lysimaque (Copenhagen, 1855-58)]. 16 mm., 4.21 g. Purchased from Harmer Rooke Numismatists, Ltd., New York City, 21 Feb. 1986. 

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Link: club (at least that's what it appears to be)

FYI: I think my Herakles is upside down 😞 

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EUBOIA. Karystos
Circa 350 BCE
Chalkous AE 10.5 mm, 1.31 g, 12 h
Head of bearded Herakles to right, wearing lion's skin headdress. Rev. KAPY Forepart of bull right, horns hung with fillets; behind, uncertain symbol - a club?.
BCD Euboia 582. HGC 4, 1570. Robinson, Olynthus III, p. 48, pl. IX, 151.
Ex J. Metzger Collection.
Ex Nomos

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Link: Forepart of bull

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Lydia, Kings of Lydia, Kroisos
circa 560-546 BC
Obv.: On the left, forepart of lion with open mouth to right confronting, on the right, forepart of bull to left.
Rev.: Incuse square
Ag, 7x8mm,0.87g
Ref.: Berk 26–7. Traité I 413. SNG Kayhan 1020-1. SNG Aulock 8213.

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[IMG] Philip II as Caesar, AD 244-247.
Roman provincial Æ 25 mm, 7.7 g.
Phrygia, Laodicea ad Lycum, Sardis Workshop,[5] AD 244-247.
Obv: •Μ•ΙΟVΛΙ••ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ•Κ•, bare headed, draped and cuirassed bust of Philip II, right, seen from front.
Rev: ΛΑΟΔΙΚЄ|ΩΝ ΝЄ|ΩΚΟΡΩΝ, river Caprus as boar and river Lycus as wolf seated back to back, heads facing each other.
Refs: BMC 25.324,260 (same rev. die); RG 6326 (same obv. die); RPC VIII unassigned, ID 20777; SNG Cop 607; SNG Leypold 1678.
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