Deinomenid Posted October 30, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted October 30, 2022 Link - horned Poseidonia, Nomos, c. 445, ποmεsδα, Poseidon standing to right, casting trident, chlamys draped over his shoulders, rev. bull standing to left on single exergue line, ποmε (retrograde) above, 8.08g 12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaniard Posted October 30, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted October 30, 2022 Link...Poseidon 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. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edessa Posted October 30, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted October 30, 2022 Link: Sicily 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. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted October 30, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted October 30, 2022 Link: Kithara 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. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prieure de Sion Posted October 30, 2022 · Member Share Posted October 30, 2022 Link Kithara too... 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. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor Steve Posted October 30, 2022 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted October 30, 2022 (edited) 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 Ex-stevex6 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 Ex-stevex6 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 Ex-stevex6 Edited October 30, 2022 by Steve 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaniard Posted October 30, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted October 30, 2022 Link....Laureate head of Apollo. 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. 10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Collector Posted October 30, 2022 · Patron Share Posted October 30, 2022 Links: Athena Itonia, Koinon of Thessaly. 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). 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted October 30, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted October 30, 2022 Link: Larissa 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. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor kirispupis Posted October 30, 2022 · Benefactor Author Benefactor Share Posted October 30, 2022 Links: Chlamys, horse, and Thessaly 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 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted October 30, 2022 · Member Share Posted October 30, 2022 Link Thessalian rider 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. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor DonnaML Posted October 31, 2022 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted October 31, 2022 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.] 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.] 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted October 31, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted October 31, 2022 Link: Thessaly 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 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaniard Posted October 31, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted October 31, 2022 Link...Petasos 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. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor kirispupis Posted October 31, 2022 · Benefactor Author Benefactor Share Posted October 31, 2022 Link: Ionia IONIA. Miletos Circa 350-325 BCE Bronze, 11 mm, 2.38 g Lion standing left, looking back; above, monogram of Miletos. Rev. Stellate pattern. Deppert-Lippitz 297-303. Weber 6041 Ex J. Metzger Collection Ex Nomos 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edessa Posted October 31, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted October 31, 2022 Link: Miletos 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. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor kirispupis Posted October 31, 2022 · Benefactor Author Benefactor Share Posted October 31, 2022 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. 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 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor DonnaML Posted October 31, 2022 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted October 31, 2022 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. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted October 31, 2022 · Member Share Posted October 31, 2022 Link - Herakes on obverse Lydia. Blaundos circa 200-0 BC. Bronze Æ 12 mm, 2,04 g Obv: Head of Herakles right, bearded / Rev: MΛAYNΔE ΘEOTIMIΔO (or MΛAYNΔEΩN ΘEOTIMIΔO); club IMHOOF LS S50,4(1) / COLL IMHOOF(1) ; BMC 16 S42,5(1) 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor kirispupis Posted October 31, 2022 · Benefactor Author Benefactor Share Posted October 31, 2022 Link: club (at least that's what it appears to be) FYI: I think my Herakles is upside down 😞 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 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted November 1, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted November 1, 2022 Link: Forepart of bull 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. 9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted November 1, 2022 · Member Share Posted November 1, 2022 Link again forepart of a bull (I was just preparing my post) Caria. Uncertain mint circa 500-400 BC. Tetartemorion AR 7 mm, 0,19 g Confronted bull heads / Forepart of bull right, within incuse square. SNG Kayhan 969 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted November 1, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted November 1, 2022 Link: Tetartemorion Asia Minor uncertain Kyzikos, Mysia ?? AR Tetartemorion, 510-480 B.C. Obv.: forepart of boar? right Rev.: incuse punch Ag, 0.14g, 5mm Ref.: - 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Collector Posted November 1, 2022 · Patron Share Posted November 1, 2022 Link: boar. 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. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor kirispupis Posted November 1, 2022 · Benefactor Author Benefactor Share Posted November 1, 2022 Link: Wolf Lycaonia. Laranda AR Obol 324/3 BCE 9.67mm .52 grams Obverse: Facing head of Herakles, with club over shoulder, H to left Reverse: Forepart of wolf right; star above Göktürk 68–9 Ex Marc Breitsprecher 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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