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Ancient Greek and Roman coins from Asia Minor


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Uncertain (BC 500) Hemitetartemorion129 viewsAbydos? ca 500-400 BC. AR Hemitetartemorion (3mm, 0.12g). Head of bird or eagle right / Quadripartite incuse square.
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Uncertain (BC 450-400) Dynast 1 - Hemiobol129 viewsca 480-450 BC. AR Hemiobol (6mm, 0.34g). Head of roaring lion left / Symbol and eagle right within incuse square. Unpublished in the standard references. VF.
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Uncertain (BC 500-450) cow - Hemistater?127 views5th century BC. AR Hemistater (16mm, 5.60g, 1h). Cow standing left, head right; below, calf kneeling right, suckling / Incuse of male head with African features left. VF, toned, porous. Extremely rare, the third known.
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Uncertain (BC 460-400) eagle - Tetartemorion127 views5th century BC. AR Tetartemorion (0.12g, 6mm). Head of Athena right, wearing Attic helmet / Eagle standing right, wings closed, in dotted square border within incuse square. VF.
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Uncertain (BC 460-400) grapes - Obol124 viewsa 500-400 BC. AR Obol (7mm, 0.93g). Head left in circular dotted border / Bunch of grapes.
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Uncertain (BC 430-350) Hemiobol123 views5th-4th centuries BC. AR Fraction (5.5mm, 0.18g). Fish left / Uncertain letters (KP in Lydian?) within incuse square. Unpublished in the standard references. VF, some porosity.
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Uncertain (BC 450-400) Dynast 2 - Tetartemorion122 views5th-4th century BC. AR Fraction (6mm, 0.18g, 7h). Male head left / Grain ear; pseudo-legend(?) to right; all within incuse circle. VF, minor porosity. Unpublished in the standard references.
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Uncertain (BC 440-380) Hemiobol122 viewsca 450 BC. AR Tetartemorion (7mm, 0.20g). Corinthian helmet right / Amphora.
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Uncertain (BC 480-420) Hemidrachm122 views5th century BC. AR Hemidrachm (9.5mm, 2.12g, 7h). Chimaira lying right, with its forepart of stag left / Facing gorgoneion within incuse square. VF, a little porous. Very rare.

This coin appears is part of a series featuring the chimaira on the obverse and a gorgoneion in incuse on the reverse, for which drachms (M. Six, “Monnaies grecques, inédites et incertaines” in NC 1890, p. 235, 15), hemidrachms (C. Greenwell, “On some rare Greek coins” in NC 1897, p. 281, 2 = Boston MFA 2325; M. Six, op. cit., p. 235, 16-16bis), and obols (CNG 91, lot 345 and CNG 85, lot 477) are known.
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Uncertain (BC 430-350) Hemiobol119 views4th century BC. AR Fraction (7.5mm, 0.37g, 7h). Figure kneeling(?) right, holding uncertain object / Herakles, wearing lion skin, crouching right, drawing bow; uncertain object to right. Unpublished in the standard references. VF, toned.
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Uncertain (BC 500-450) Apollo - Tetartemorion116 views5th century BC. AR Tetartemorion(?) (6mm, 0.17g, 12h). Head of Apollo (?) right / Incuse archaic style head right. Apparently unpublished. Near VF, toned, porous.

The head on the reverse is similar to the archaic heads found on the early silver fractions of Kolophon (see Kim & Kroll), but the fact of it being incuse, and the obverse type, which is not likely at Kolophon, makes an assignment to that mint unlikely. Silver fractions of this type, obverse figure in relief, reverse in incuse, are typically found in early issues from the Troad (esp. Dardanos), but the types on this issue are not identified with any of those mints in particular.
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Uncertain (BC 500) Bull 3 - Obol114 viewsca 530-480 BC. AR Obol (6mm, 0.64g). Head of bull left / Incuse square with central pellet and raised diagonal lines.
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Uncertain (BC 480-420) Hemidrachm111 views5th century BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.00g, 11mm). Forepart of Chimaira right / Facing gorgoneion within incuse square. aVF. Very rare.
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Uncertain (BC 450-400) Dynast 2 - Hemiobol110 views5th-4th century BC. AR Fraction (7mm, 0.44g). Head of lion right / Grain ear; pseudo-legend(?) around; all within incuse square. Unpublished in the standard references. VF, minor porosity.
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Uncertain (BC 460-400) bull - obol106 viewsca 5th century BC. AR Obol (0.86g, 10mm). Male head with pointed beard right, wearing necklace / Forepart of bull left within incuse square. VF. Rare.
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Uncertain (BC 500) Bull 3 - Hemiobol106 viewsca 500-400 BC. AR Hemiobol (5mm, 0.31g). Head of bull left / Incuse square, with pellet in center, in margin, incuse triangle on each side of incuse square.
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Uncertain (BC 480-460) Tetartemorion105 viewsca 5th century BC. AR Tetartemorion (5mm, 0.14g). Head of griffin right / Head and neck of bull left within incuse square. VF. Extremely rare, apparently unpublished.
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Uncertain (BC 425-375) Diobol B2105 views5th-4th century B.C. AR Diobol (9mm, 1.16g, 6h). Forepart of boar right; below, monogram / Head of roaring lion right. Dark find patina, gVF.
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Uncertain (BC 450-400) Dynast 2 - Tetartemorion103 views5th century BC. AR Tetartemorion(?) (5.5mm, 0.20g). Head of ram right / Large wreath-like symbol, pseudo-legend around, within incuse circle. VF, granular surfaces.
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Uncertain (BC 440-390) Wheel - Hemiobol102 views5th century BC. AR Hemiobol (0.3g, 6mm). Eagle standing left / Four-spoked wheel.
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Uncertain (BC 450-400) Dynast 2 - Hemiobol97 viewsca 500-400 BC. AR Hemiobol (5mm, 0.48g). Head of ram (or eagle?) right / Uncertain inscription around monogram. VF.
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Uncertain (BC 500) Bull - Hemiobol91 viewsca 530-480 BC. AR Hemiobol or Tetartemorion (5mm, 0.30g). Head of bull or calf right / Quadripartite incuse square.
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Uncertain (BC 450-400) Dynast 2 - Hemiobol88 viewsca 500-400 BC. AR Hemiobol (0.45g). Head of ram right / Large wreath-like symbol, pseudo-legend around, within incuse circle.
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Uncertain (BC 460-400) Hemiobol80 viewsca 480-430 BC. Uncertain mint, uncertain Lykian Dynast. AR Hemiobol (5mm, 0.23g). Forepart of boar right / Forepart of hound right within incuse square. VF.
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