Asia Minor Coins - Photo Gallery

Ancient Greek and Roman coins from Asia Minor


Airai


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2 coins, last one added on Sep 30, 2013
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Chios


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54 coins, last one added on Jul 10, 2019
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Ephesos


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359 coins, last one added on Sep 25, 2019
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Erythrai


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97 coins, last one added on Jan 18, 2019
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Herakleia ad Latmon


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15 coins, last one added on Sep 23, 2018
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Klazomenai


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63 coins, last one added on Sep 23, 2018
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Kolophon


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98 coins, last one added on Jul 11, 2019
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Larisa


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5 coins, last one added on Mar 18, 2015
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Lebedos - Ptolemais


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18 coins, last one added on Mar 18, 2015
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Leukai


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10 coins, last one added on Nov 01, 2011
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Magnesia ad Maeander


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150 coins, last one added on Jun 11, 2019
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Metropolis


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37 coins, last one added on Sep 25, 2019
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Miletos


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113 coins, last one added on Dec 30, 2018
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Myous


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8 coins, last one added on Aug 14, 2015
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Naulochos


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3 coins, last one added on Jun 10, 2019
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Neapolis


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1 coins, last one added on Nov 23, 2008
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Oinoia - Ikaria


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5 coins, last one added on Feb 20, 2011
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Pedasa


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2 coins, last one added on Apr 29, 2013
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Phokaia


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67 coins, last one added on Sep 23, 2018
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Phokaia EL


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179 coins, last one added on Dec 20, 2019
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Phygela


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9 coins, last one added on Aug 14, 2015
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Priene


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34 coins, last one added on Sep 23, 2018
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Samos


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117 coins, last one added on Sep 23, 2018
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Smyrna


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137 coins, last one added on Jun 08, 2019
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Teos


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114 coins, last one added on Sep 25, 2019
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Ionia Uncertain


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153 coins, last one added on Jun 06, 2019
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Random coins - Ionia
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Erythrai (BC 400) AE 10281 viewsca 400-375 BC. AE10 (1.4g). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / EPYΘ, single-handled vase, corn grain to right. VF.
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Ephesos (AD 117-138) Cistophoric Tetradrachm - Hadrian728 viewsHadrian, 117-138 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (10.25g, 6h), struck after 128 AD. Bare-headed and draped bust right / Temple of Diana (Artemis) Ephesia: ornate tetrastyle temple set on three-tiered base, pediment decorated with figures; cult statue of Diana within. VF, light graffiti in obverse field.
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Teos (BC 530-478) Drachm397 viewsca 530-478 BC. AR Drachm (5.92g). Griffin with curled wings seated right / Rough quadripartite incuse square. Toned, good VF, well centered.
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Smyrna (BC 27-14 AD) AE 19 - Augustus & Tiberius593 viewsAugustus, with Tiberius. 27 BC-14 AD. AE19 (3.32g, 12h). Bare heads of Augustus and Tiberius, vis-a-vis / Livia, as Aphrodite Stratonikis standing facing, leaning on cippus, holding scepter and Nike; to right, dove left; to left, monogram. VF, dark green patina, traces of olive and light green. Ex Prideaux Coll. of Augustus.
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Smyrna (AD 14-37) AE 21 – Tiberius & Livia441 viewsTiberius, 14-37 AD. AE21 (6.2g). Hieronymos, magistrate. CЄBACTHC CYNKΛHTOC ZMYPNAIωN IЄPONYMOC, confronted busts of Senate, laureate and draped, at left and Livia, diademed and draped, at right / CЄBACTOC TIBЄPIOC EΠI ΠЄTPωNIOY, togate statue of Tiberius within tetrastyle temple. EF.
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Phygela (BC 300-250) AE 597 viewsca 3rd century BC. AE (2.53g). Draped bust of Artemis Munychia facing, turned slightly to left, wearing stephane / ΦΥΓ, bull butting left, palm to left, ΣΩKΡATHΣ (magistrate) below. Dark green patina, gVF. Rare. Ex Münzen and Medaillen AG, Basel - Lagerliste 529 (1990), 184.
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Teos (BC 425-400) Tetartemorion400 viewsca 5th-4th century BC. AR Tetartemorion (0.25g). Griffin right / Astragalos within incuse square. Good very fine.
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Phokaia (BC 225-200) AE 19513 viewsca 225-200 BC. AE19 (4.72g). Hermias, magistrate. Head of Hermes left, wearing petasos / Forepart of a griffin left, ΦΩΚΑΕΩΝ above; grape cluster to left. Near VF, dark grayish-green patina. Wagner Coll.

Last additions - Ionia
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Phokaia (BC 600-560) EL 1/6 Stater - B -809 viewsca 600-560 BC. EL Hekte (2.57g, 10mm). Head of female left with a narrow hair band, long flowing hair, and an annular earing; behind, seal swimming downwards / Irregular incuse square. EF. Carr coll.

Unknown to Bodenstedt, this is the 5th example to appear at auction. Same dies as Numismatica Ars Classica 92 part 1, 23 May 2016, Lot 216 and ‘Prospero’, The new York Sale XXVI, 4 January 2012, Lot 520. Others known are: Nomos 15, 22 October 2017, Lot 153; CNG 108, 16 May 2018, Lot 196.
Dec 20, 2019
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Phokaia (BC 600-522) EL 1/6 Stater538 viewsca 625/0-522 BC. EL Hekte (2.59g, 9mm). Mother seal swimming to left with a young swimming to right below, each with annulet above. / Rough incuse square. Apparently unpublished and unique, a wonderful coin with an incredibly charming obverse. Nearly extremely fine.

The name Phokaia is derived from the Greek word Φωκάι, which translates as 'seals' and is still found, as a Greek loanword, in the modern Latinian languages today (fr. 'phoque', it./span./portug. 'foca'). Unsurprisingly, the lovely animals served as a badge on Phokaia's coins, most commonly in the form of a small seal below or behind a larger main type. The earliest coinage of the city, however, still retains the seal as main type: on the present example, we find one of the most charming renderings of animals in all of Archaic Greek coinage, in the form of a mother seal swimming to the left with her young heading to the right below. The fact that mother and child swim in opposite directions gives the scenery an enchanting playfulness that almost certainly derives from personal observation by the artist - perhaps he was watching the animals romping around the small islands in the bay before Phokaia?
Nov 23, 2019
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Ephesos (AD 253-268) AE 25 - Gallienus121 viewsGallienus, 253-268 AD. AE25 (7.25g). AVT K ΠO ΛIK ΓAΛΛIHNOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / ЄΦЄCΙΩΝ Δ ΝЄΟΚΟΡΩΝ, prize crown with palm inscribed EΦECAI. gVF.Sep 25, 2019
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Metropolis (AD 254-268) AE 26 - Salonina123 viewsSalonina, Augusta, 254-268 AD. AE26 (6.93g). Ser. Aproneianos, strategos. CAΛΩN XPVCOΓONHC C, draped bust right, wearing stephane / MHTPOΠOΛITΩN AΠPΩNIANOV […], Kybele seated left on throne, holding patera and resting elbow upon tympanum; lion to left. VF.Sep 25, 2019
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Ephesos (AD 254-268) AE 27 - Salonina120 viewsSalonina, Augusta, 254-268 AD. AE27 (8.77g). CAΛΩNEINA CEBA, draped bust right, wearing stephane and set upon crescent / EΦECIΩN Δ NEΩKOPΩN, Artemis advancing right, holding bow and drawing bow from quiver on back; to right, hound advancing right. gVF.Sep 25, 2019
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Teos (AD 255-256) AE 21 - Valerian II116 viewsValerian II. Caesar, 256-258 AD. AE21 (4.56g). ΠΟ ΛΙΚ ΟΥΑΛЄΡΙΑΝΟC, bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ΤΗΙΩΝ, Apollo standing holding bow and laurel branch. VF.Sep 25, 2019
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Kolophon (BC 375-350) Drachm308 views389-350 BC. AR Drachm (3.01g). Moiras, magistrate. Head of Apollo / Lyre. gVF. Unpublished variant.Jul 11, 2019
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Chios (BC 478-431) Tetrobol186 viewsca 435-425 BC. AR 1/3 Stater or Tetrobol (9mm, 2.58g). Sphinx seated left, to left, grape bunch (?) above amphora / Quadripartite incuse square. aVF.Jul 10, 2019