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Greek Italy.  Bruttium, Rhegion.  Æ 23 mm, c. 260-218 BC.  Obv: Head of Artemis right, bow and quiver over shoulder.  Rev: PΗΓΙ - ΝΩΝ. Kithara (7-stringed professional lyre).  HN Italy 2546; HGC 1 1678; SNG ANS 729ff (or 729?).  6.24 g.  23.00 mm.  Good VF.

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Nice coin.

syrinx (pan flute)

 

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Gordianus III
Macedonia, Pella
AE 24
Obv.: IMP C M ANT * GORDIANVS, Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust r.
Rev.: COL IVL A - VG – PELLA, Pan seated left on rock, right arm over head and holding pedum in left; syrinx (pan flute) in left field.
AE, 24.4 mm, 9.52 g
Ref.: SNG Copenhagen 286, Varbanov 3758

 

 

Here are two more coins with Kithara:

 

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Masikytes
Asia Minor, Lykian League
Ar Hemidrachm
Obv.: Laureate head of Apollo right.
Rev.: M-A, kithara; tripod to right; all within incuse square.
Ag, 1.62g, 16mm
Ref.: RPC 3310, Troxell Period IV, Series 6

 

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Augustus
Asia Minor, Lykia, Masikytes
AR Drachm, 28-19 BC
Obv.: Λ - Y, Bare head right
Rev.: Two Kitharas, Aphlaston left, Μ / A right
Ag, 19.5mm, 3.48g
Ref.: RPC 3309, SNG von Aulock 4351, Troxell, LL 150, 116 (same obv.- die)

 

 

and a smaller lyra behind the head of Apollo

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Phokaia, Phokis, Federal Coinage
AR Triobol, 354-352 BC
Obv.: Bull’s head facing
Rev.: Head of Apollo, lyre behind, Φ Ω below
Ag, 2.61g, 14.3mm
Ref.: BCD Lokris-Phokis 310.1, Williams 390, SNG Copenhagen 121-2

 

 

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Nice coin.

syrinx (pan flute)

 

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Gordianus III
Macedonia, Pella
AE 24
Obv.: IMP C M ANT * GORDIANVS, Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust r.
Rev.: COL IVL A - VG – PELLA, Pan seated left on rock, right arm over head and holding pedum in left; syrinx (pan flute) in left field.
AE, 24.4 mm, 9.52 g
Ref.: SNG Copenhagen 286, Varbanov 3758

 

 

Here are two more coins with Kithara:

 

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Masikytes
Asia Minor, Lykian League
Ar Hemidrachm
Obv.: Laureate head of Apollo right.
Rev.: M-A, kithara; tripod to right; all within incuse square.
Ag, 1.62g, 16mm
Ref.: RPC 3310, Troxell Period IV, Series 6

 

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Augustus
Asia Minor, Lykia, Masikytes
AR Drachm, 28-19 BC
Obv.: Λ - Y, Bare head right
Rev.: Two Kitharas, Aphlaston left, Μ / A right
Ag, 19.5mm, 3.48g
Ref.: RPC 3309, SNG von Aulock 4351, Troxell, LL 150, 116 (same obv.- die)

 

 

and a smaller lyra behind the head of Apollo

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Phokaia, Phokis, Federal Coinage
AR Triobol, 354-352 BC
Obv.: Bull’s head facing
Rev.: Head of Apollo, lyre behind, Φ Ω below
Ag, 2.61g, 14.3mm
Ref.: BCD Lokris-Phokis 310.1, Williams 390, SNG Copenhagen 121-2

 

 

Nice ones!
Thank you, these Rhegion bronzes with the kithara are quite scarce on the market and usually in awful conditions. I got quite lucky with mine, it has some nice details and I didn’t pay too much for it (160€).

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Aulos

PHRYGIA. Apameia. Ae (Circa 88-40 BC). Magistrate Attalos, son of Bianor, eglogistes.
Obv: Turreted head of Artemis-Tyche right, with bow and quiver over shoulder.
Rev: AΠAMEΩN / ATTAΛOY BIANOPOΣ.
Marsyas advancing right, playing aulos; menander pattern below.
BMC 62; HGC 7, 674. 5,49 g - 18,77 mm

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Harpa

RPC Volume: III №: 2958
Reign: Hadrian Persons: Hadrian (Augustus)
City: Tyana  Region: Cappadocia Province: Galatia-Cappadocia
Denomination: Æ (15 mm) 3.80 g. Issue: Year 20 (AD 135/6)
Obverse: ΑΥΤΟ ΚΑ ΤΡ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕΒΑϹΤ; laureate head of Hadrian, right
Reverse: ΤΥΑΝΕΩΝ ΤΩ ΠΡ Τ ΙΕΡ ΑϹ, ΕΤ - Κ (in field); Perseus standing facing, holding head of Medusa and harpa
Reference: Ganschow 1014b Specimens: 10 (Zero in the core collections)

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Lyre

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Here's an electrum of Agathokles, with a kithara. 72% sure it's genuine, but vague doubts based partly on the seller (who also described Apollo as a nymph), so airing it might help.

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The lyres with  tortoise shells, like this one -

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- are a bit  savage for me, as they remind me of Hermes' laughingly slaughtering a little tortoise, or rather making "the tortoise a  singer"!!

"For it was Hermes who first made the tortoise a singer. The creature fell in his way at the courtyard gate, where it was feeding on the rich grass before the dwelling, waddling along. When he saw it, the luck-bringing son of Zeus laughed and said:

“An omen of great luck for me so soon! I do not slight it. Hail, comrade of the feast, lovely in shape, sounding at the dance! With joy I meet you! Where got you that rich gaud for covering, that spangled shell —a tortoise living in the mountains? But I will take and carry you within: you shall help me and I will do you no disgrace, though first of all you must profit me...Thus speaking, he took up the tortoise in both hands and went back into the house carrying his charming toy. Then he cut off its limbs and scooped out the marrow of the mountain-tortoise with a scoop of grey iron. As a swift thought darts through the heart of a man when thronging cares haunt him, or as bright glances flash from the eye, so glorious Hermes planned both thought and deed at once. He cut stalks of reed to measure and fixed them, fastening their ends across the back and through the shell of the tortoise, and then stretched ox hide all over it by his skill.  Also he put in the horns and fitted a cross-piece upon the two of them, and stretched seven strings of sheep-gut. But when he had made it he proved each string in turn with the key, as he held the lovely thing..." etc- Homeric  Hymn to Hermes.

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Lesbos, Mytilene. Hemidrachm (Circa 350-250 BC).

Obv: Laureate head of Apollo right.
Rev: MY / T-I. Lyre.
From the collection of W. F. Stoecklin, Amriswil, Switzerland, acquired prior in the early 1950s from the collection of Dr. Naegeli in Zurich.

 

 

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Sarmatia, Tyra. Julia Domna AE24. Cybele

Obv: TVPA NWN. Bust of Domna r., draped.
Rev: IOVLADO MNA CE. Kybele seated r., wearing mural crown; in her r., patera; beneath l. elbow, tympanon; behind, delta.
BMC 2

 

 

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Phrygia, Apamea. AE19. AD 244-268.

Obv: ΔHMOC, laureate, bearded and draped bust of Demos right.
Rev: AΠAMEΩN, Marsyas walking right, wearing nebris, playing double-flute.
BMC 126.

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Teos, Ionia

320-294 BC
AR Diobol (10mm, 0.92g)
Mentor magistrate.
O: Griffin seated right, with left forepaw raised.
R: Lyre; MENTΩP (magistrate) downward to right.
Kinns 95; SNG Kayhan 611v; Imhoof 126A
ex MRB Coins

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Ionia, Kolophon 430-400 BC, Silver Drachm 5.33g, 15mm Laureate head fo Apollo right. Lyre. "[KO]ΛO[ΦΩN]ION" SNG Von Aulock 2004

 

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L. Julius L.f. Caesar. 103 BC. AR Denarius (15.5mm, 3.87 g, 7h). Rome mint. Helmeted head of Mars left; •L (retrograde) above / Venus Genetrix driving biga of Cupids left, holding scepter and reins; •L (retrograde) above, lyre below. Crawford 320/1; Sydenham 593; Julia 4; RBW 1175 var. (control).

 

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PHILIP III ARRHIDAIOS OF MACEDON AR DRACHM, 323 - 300 B.C.E. Price P44, Muller P51, Very Fine+, 18.4mm, 4.30 grams, Struck Circa. 323 - 319 B.C.E., Colophon Mint Obverse: Head of (Alexander as) Herakles wearing lion skin to right Reverse: Zeus Aëtophoros seated to left, ΦIΛIΠΠOY to right, lyre to left, A below throne

 

 

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