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Ancient Greek and Roman coins from Asia Minor


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Phokaia (BC 477-388) B90 - EL 1/6 Stater950 views477-388 BC. EL Hekte (2.55g). Female head left, hair in sakkos / Quadripartite incuse square. Very fine.11111
(7 votes)
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 650-600) EL Stater1217 viewsca 650-600 BC. EL Stater (14.52g). Milesian standard. Striated type. Flattened striated surface / Two rough incuse punches separated by a cleft. Good VF. Extremely rare, one of seven known staters of this type.11111
(9 votes)
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Ephesos (AD 0-100) AE 211092 views1st century AD. AE21 - Tesserae (5.87g). Stag kneeling left, head reverted / Bee. VF, dark green patina, mounted in a contemporary silver bezel which has been broken, most likely where a loop had been for suspension. A long series of tesserae, or tokens, was produced at the cult center of Ephesos during the Hellenistic period and later. The legends generally cannot be translated, and are probably for the most part meaningless mystical formulae.11111
(6 votes)
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 625-600) Geometric - EL 1/12838 viewsca 625-600 BC. EL 1/12 Stater - Hemihekte (1.42g). Euboic standard. Geometric type. Three-sided square with central projection, surrounded by radiate lines / Rough incuse square punch. Good VF. Very rare. 11111
(6 votes)
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Ephesos (BC 625-600) EL 1/12 Stater849 viewsPhanes, ca 625-600 BC. EL 1/12 Stater - Hemihekte (1.17g). Forepart of stag left, head reverted / Incuse square punch with raised lines within. VF. Extremely rare, only a handful known.11111
(6 votes)
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Phokaia (BC 525-500) Tetartemorion785 viewsca 530-478 BC. AR Tetartemorion (0.25g). Griffin head left / Quadripartite incuse square with central pellet. Good VF.11111
(6 votes)
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Phokaia (BC 387-326) B98 - EL 1/6 Stater1033 viewsca 387-326 BC. EL Hekte (2.53g). Head of Aphrodite left, hair in chignon; seal below / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF, well centered. Very rare, only seven specimens cited by Bodenstedt, all but one in museum collections.11111
(8 votes)
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Phokaia (BC 521-478) B38 - EL 1/6 Stater795 viewsca 521-478 BC. EL Hekte (2.55g). Roaring lion left; seal below / Quadripartite incuse square. VF, struck with worn obverse die. Extremely rare, only four specimens listed by Bodenstedt, all in museum collections. 11111
(8 votes)
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Ephesos (BC 625-600) EL 1/24 Stater767 viewsPhanes, ca 625-600 BC. EL 1/24 Stater (0.56g). Forepart of stag right, head reverted / Incuse square punch with raised lines within. Near VF. Rare.11111
(8 votes)
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Phokaia (BC 387-326) B102 - EL 1/6 Stater2005 viewsca 387-326 BC. EL Hekte (2.54g). Laureate head of female left, hair in sakkos; seal below / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF, fine style and well centered. 11111
(8 votes)
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Phokaia (BC 600-522) B09 - EL 1/6 Stater1063 viewsca 600-522 BC. EL Hekte (2.58g). Forepart of bull right, head reverted; small seal above / Rough quadripartite incuse square. Good VF. Rare.11111
(8 votes)
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Phokaia (BC 521-478) B31 - EL 1/6 Stater1734 viewsca 521-478 BC. EL Hekte (2.51g, 12h). Female head left, wearing helmet or close fitting cap; seal to right / Quadripartite incuse square. Superb EF. Very rare, only four specimens cited by Bodenstedt.11111
(8 votes)
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 625-550) Geometric - EL 1/12919 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL 1/12th Stater or Hemihekte (1.15g). Geometric designs.11111
(8 votes)
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Phokaia (BC 521-478) B38 - EL 1/6 Stater983 viewsca 521-478 BC. EL Hekte (2.58g). Head of a roaring lion left; seal to right / Quadripartite incuse square. EF. Very rare, only four specimens cited by Bodenstedt, all in museum collections.11111
(10 votes)
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Teos (BC 370-340) Hemidrachm753 viewsca 370-340 BC. AR Hemidrachm (13mm, 1.40g). Diogenes, magistrate. Griffin seated right, left paw raised / Kantharos. VF, nice metal.11111
(5 votes)
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Samos (BC 400-350) AE 15455 views4th century BC. AE15 (2.73g). Facing lion scalp / Forepart of bull right. Dark green patina, gVF. Unique?11111
(5 votes)
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Ephesos (BC 387-295) Tetradrachm952 viewsca 387-295 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 14.94g, 12h). Ε-Φ, bee with straight wings / Forepart of a stag right, palm tree left; magistrate MANTIKRATH[S]. Site of the Temple of Artemis, one of the 7 Wonders of the world. Ex CNG 61, Lot 683.11111
(5 votes)
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Ephesos (BC 625-600) EL 1/12 Stater891 viewsPhanes, ca 625-600 BC. EL 1/12 Stater - Hemihekte (1.10g). Forepart of stag left, head reverted / Incuse square punch with raised lines within. Near VF. Extremely rare, possibly the second known. 11111
(5 votes)
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Klazomenai (BC 480-400) Drachm1204 views5th century BC. AR Drachm (3.31g). Forepart of winged boar right / Gorgoneion facing within incuse square. Good VF.11111
(5 votes)
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 625-550) Geometric - EL 1/241582 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL 1/24 Stater (0.55g) Geometric designs.11111
(7 votes)
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Phokaia (BC 600-522) B01 - EL Stater1217 viewsca 625-575 BC. EL Stater (16.47g). Head of griffin right, tongue protruding from open jaws, knob on forehead and two tendrils curling over neck / Rough incuse square. Good VF, obverse die slightly worn. The second specimen known, from a different pair of dies.

Attributed to Phokaia based on style, fabric, and metrology, as well as the fact that it uses a griffin head as a coin type on silver trihemiobols of the late 6th century BC.
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(9 votes)
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Phokaia (BC 387-326) B106 - EL 1/6 Stater978 viewsca 387-326 BC. EL Hekte (2.54g). Female head left, hair rolled and tied at forehead in a "star"; [small seal below] / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF, a few scuff marks.11111
(9 votes)
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Phokaia (BC 521-478) 1/18? Stater1454 viewsca 500-490 BC. AR 1/24 Stater (0.81g). Female head right, wearing cap / Quadripartite incuse punch. VF, nice Archaic-style head. Unlisted denomination?11111
(20 votes)
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Kolophon (BC 330-280) AE 13901 viewsca 330-285 BC. AE13 (2.10g). Laureate head of Apollo right / Forepart of bridled horse right; ΣΟΚΡΑΤΗΣ (magistrate) to left, ΚΟΛ below. EF, black patina.11111
(8 votes)
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Metropolis (AD 198-209) AE 17 - Geta532 viewsGeta, as Caesar, 198-209 AD. AE17 (2.60g). Bare-headed and draped bust right / ΜΗ[Τ]ΡΟ-ΠΟ-ΛΙΤΩΝ, river god reclining left, holding reed; overturned urn behind from which water flows. VF, green patina, a little rough. Drewry Coll.11111
(6 votes)
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 625-600) Geometric - EL 1/24663 viewsca 625-600 BC. EL 1/24th Stater (0.73g). Euboic standard. Geometric type. Three-sided square with central projection, surrounded by radiate lines / Rough incuse square punch. Good VF. Extremely rare. Struck from the same obverse die as the previous lot, as well as Rosen 363 and CNG 67, 709, both EL twelfth staters.11111
(6 votes)
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 650-600) EL 1/6 Stater855 viewsca 650-600 BC. EL 1/6 Stater - Hekte (2.42g). Milesian standard. Striated type. Flattened striated surface / Double incuse punch. VF. Struck from the same punches as the following two lots.11111
(6 votes)
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Phokaia (BC 600-522) B12 - EL 1/24 Stater1044 viewsca 625/20-522 BC. EL 1/24 stater (0.63g). Griffin's head left; seal to right / Bipartite incuse square. Good VF. 11111
(6 votes)
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Miletos (AD 117-138) Cistophoric Tetradrachm - Hadrian692 viewsHadrian, 117-138 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (10.80g, 7h), struck after 128 AD. Bare head right / Temple of Apollo Didymeus: tetrastyle temple set on three-tiered podium, pellet in pediment; within, statue of Apollo standing facing, holding stag and bow. VF, obverse struck with slightly rusty dies. Overstruck on a cistophorus of Mark Antony and Octavia.11111
(6 votes)
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Ephesos (BC 122-121) Tetradrachm821 viewsC. Atinius C.f., Praetor, 122-121 BC. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (12.55g, 12h). Dated CY 13 (122/1 BC). Cista mystica within ivy wreath / Bow case between two serpents; IG and caduceus above, torch to left. Near VF. Extremely rare, fewer than ten known.

The earliest Roman cistophoric tetradrachm. T.R.S. Broughton, in The Magistrates of the Roman Republic 3. Supplement (1986), identified this praetor as C. Atinius Labeo, who is best known for attempting to have the censor (and hero of the Fourth Macedonian War) Q. Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus thrown off the Tarpeian Rock for expelling him from the Senate (see Livy, Per. LIX.10).
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(6 votes)
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Kolophon (BC 330-285) AE 15681 viewsca 330-285 BC. AE15 (2.21g). Laureate head of Apollo 3/4 to left / Lyre, palm to right, ΕΡΑΣΙΝΙΔΗΣ (magistrate) to left, KO below. Good VF, glossy, dark grayish green patina. Rare.11111
(6 votes)
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Phokaia (BC 530-500) Diobol1383 viewsca 6th century BC. AR Diobol (1.58g). Head of griffin left / Quadripartite incuse square. VF.00000
(15 votes)
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Kolophon (BC 525-500) Hemiobol2693 viewsca late 6th cent BC. AR Persic Hemiobol (0.38g). Archaic head of Apollo left / Mill-sail incuse punch. Toned, good VF, light porosity. Fine archaic style.00000
(22 votes)
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 550-500) Eagle - EL 1/48955 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL 1/48th Stater (5mm, 0.27g). Eagle standing left, head reverted / Incuse punch. VF, head off the flan. Rare.00000
(9 votes)
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Chios (BC 250-150) AE 18763 views3rd-2nd cent BC. AE18 (3.77g). Sphinx seated left / Amphora, ΧΙΟΣ to left, ΧΙΠΩΝ (magistrate) to right. Light brass toning, porous, gVF. Gutknecht coll.00000
(9 votes)
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Kolophon (BC 450-410) Tritemorion?508 viewsca 450-410 BC. AR Persic Tritemorion? (1/3 obol) (0.28g). Head of Apollo? right, wearing helmet? / Mark of value or monogram? in incuse square.00000
(9 votes)
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 625-600) Swastika - EL 1/24983 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL 1/24 Stater (0.64g). Raised swastika pattern / Quadripartite incuse square punch. Extremely fine.00000
(7 votes)
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Magnesia (BC 450-400) Hemiobol 802 viewsca 400 BC. AR Hemiobol - Attic standard (5mm, 0.21g). Bull butting right / 8-rayed star with central pellet, MA above. 00000
(17 votes)
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Ephesos (AD 117-138) Cistophoric Tetradrachm - Hadrian592 viewsHadrian, 117-138 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (10.56g, 7h), struck after 128 AD. Bare head right / Fortuna Ephesia standing left, holding rudder and cornucopiae. VF, area of light porosity. Overstruck on a cistophorus of Augustus.00000
(5 votes)
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Ephesos (BC 245-202) Obol447 viewsca 3rd cent BC. AR Hemiobol (0.37g, 7mm). Bust of Artemis right, bowcase behind shoulder / Forepart of stag right, head reverted. Dark toning, VF. Extremely rare.00000
(5 votes)
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Kolophon (BC 450-410) Drachm765 viewsca 440-400 BC. AR Drachm (5.36g). Laureate head of Apollo right / Lyre within incuse square, ΚΟΛΦ-Ω-ΝΙΩΝ. Toned VF.00000
(5 votes)
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Ephesos (BC 288-275) Octobol796 viewsca early 3rd cent BC. AR Octobol (5.59g). Attic standard. Cleole, magistrate. Diademed bust of Artemis right / Bow and quiver; ΕΦΕ and bee to right, ΚΛΕΟΛΕ to left. Good VF. Apparently unpublished magistrate.00000
(8 votes)
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Ephesos (AD 0-100) AE 182477 views1st cent AD. AE18 - Tesserae (3.48g). Stag kneeling left, head reverted / Bee. Near VF, dark brown patina with some orangish earthen encrustation.00000
(8 votes)
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Teos (BC 250-150) AE 13663 views3rd-2nd cent BC. AE13 (1.80g). Griffin sitting right, left paw extended, in dotted circle / Bunch of grapes on vine, ΜΟΣ-ΙΩΝ (magistrate) in fields. Dark green patina, gVF. Rare. Gutknecht coll.00000
(8 votes)
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Kolophon (BC 480-450) Drachm613 viewsca 480-450 BC. AR Drachm (5.40g). Laureate head of Apollo right, his hair in a queue bound up around his wreath / Lyre of seven strings, ΚΟΛΦΩΝΙΩΝ. Rare. Minor corrosion, otherwise, VF.00000
(8 votes)
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 600-550) Bull - EL 1/121415 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Hemihekte - 1/12 Stater (1.14g). Milesian standard. Figural type. Bull’s head right / Incuse square punch. Good VF. Very rare. 00000
(11 votes)
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Teos (AD 255-256) AE 22 - Valerian II. Caesar482 viewsValerian II, Caesar, 255-256 AD. AE22 (4.66g). Bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust right / Anacreon standing right, playing lyre held on knee. VF, olive green patina. Drewry Coll.; Ex Mabbott Coll., Schulman (6/1969), lot 1644.00000
(6 votes)
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Ephesos (AD 198-217) AE 24 - Caracalla564 viewsCaracalla, 198-217 AD. AE24 (6.45g). Second neocorate. Laureate head right / ΕΦΕCΙΩ−Ν Β ΝΕΟ−ΚΟΡΩΝ, Artemis standing right, holding by the antlers stag kneeling right. VF, green patina, a little rough. Drewry Coll.00000
(6 votes)
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 650-600) thunderbolt - EL 1/6 Stater927 viewsca 600 BC. EL 1/6 Stater - Hekte (2.38g). Milesian Standard. Thunderbolt / Double incuse square punch. Good VF.00000
(7 votes)
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Samos (BC 210-185) Drachm733 viewsca 200 BC. AR Tetrobol (3.02g). Facing lion's mask / Forepart of bull right; ΣΑΜΙΩΝ above, crater, monogram and ear of corn below. Toned. Extremely fine.00000
(5 votes)
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Phokaia (BC 521-478) B39 - EL 1/6 Stater919 viewsca 521-478 BC. EL Hekte (2.49g). Forepart of a winged griffin left, seal (fokh) behind / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF. Very rare, only 3 specimens cited by Bodenstedt.00000
(8 votes)
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Samos (BC 393-388) Tetradrachm730 viewsca 393-388 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.88g, 21mm, 11h). Lion scalp facing / Forepart of bull right, ΚΛΕΑΓΟΡΗΣ (magistrate) above, ΣA below, within incuse square. Very scarce, VF.00000
(12 votes)
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Chios (AD 0-100) AE1466 viewsCivic Issue, ca 1st century AD. AE - 3 Assaria (18.40g). Publius Valerius Primus, archon for the second time. Sphinx seated left, paw resting on prow of galley / Wine amphora set within wreath. VF, dark green patina, surfaces smoothed.00000
(6 votes)
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Miletos (BC 175-85) Drachm737 viewsca 175-86/5 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 4.90g). Laureate head of Apollo right / Lion standing right, looking back at 8-rayed star, MI (city) and EP monograms to right, ΒΙΩΝ (?) (magistrate) in exergue.00000
(5 votes)
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Ephesos (BC 625-600) EL 1/24 Stater589 viewsPhanes, ca 625-600 BC. EL 1/24 Stater (0.57g). Forepart of stag left, head reverted; 3 dots to left / Incuse square punch with raised lines within. Triton VIII, 405; otherwise unpublished. Fine. Very rare.00000
(5 votes)
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Kolophon (BC 450-410) Tritemorion839 viewsca 450-410 BC. AR Persic Tritemorion? (1/3 obol) (0.30g). Head of Apollo? right, wearing helmet? / Mark of value or monogram? in incuse square.1 comments00000
(24 votes)
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Phokaia (BC 387-326) Hemidrachm1052 viewsca 387-326 BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.12g, 2h). Helmeted head of Athena left / Head of griffin left; ΑΓ monogram below. Good VF, minor porosity. Rare.1 comments00000
(21 votes)
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Smyrna (AD 37-41) AE 19 - Caligula754 viewsCaligula, with Drusilla, 37-41 AD. AE19 (3.51g), struck ca 37-38 AD. GAION KAICAR - A GERMANIKON EPI [AOUIOLA]. Laureate head of Caligula right / DROUC[ILLAN ZMURNAIW]N MHN-OFANHC. Drusilla with poppies and scepter sitting left. Dark green patina, aEF.00000
(6 votes)
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Miletos (BC 259-246) Drachm669 viewsca 260-250 BC. AR Drachm (20mm, 5.06g). Persic standard. Leontiskos, magistrate. Laureate head of Apollo left / Lion standing left, head turned to right; star above, monogram and T in left field; ΛΕΟΝΤΙΣΚΟ[Σ] in exergue. Good VF, surfaces rough and granular.00000
(7 votes)
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Samos (BC 27-AD 14) AE 17 - Augustus(?)628 viewsAugustus(?), 27 BC-14 AD. AE17 (4.82g). Laureate head right / Peacock standing right on caduceus; sceptre behind. VF, brown surfaces. Drewry Coll.; Ex Malter Galleries 79 (6/2001), lot 71.00000
(6 votes)
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Phokaia (BC 477-388) B90 - EL 1/6 Stater951 views477-388 BC. EL Hekte (2.56g). Female head left, hair in sakkos, seal below / Quadripartite incuse square. gVF.00000
(6 votes)
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Kolophon (BC 480-450) Hemiobol680 viewsca 480-470 BC. AR Hemiobol (0.43g). Facing laureate head of Apollo Klarios / Mark of value or monogram? in incuse square. Rare. Porous, VF.00000
(6 votes)
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Kolophon (AD 244-249) AE 35 - Philip I598 viewsPhilip I, 244-249 AD. AE35 (18.55g). Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / ΕΠΕPCΤ ΑΥΡΙΑC ΧΡΙ ΟΝ C/ΟΓ ΚΟΛΟΦΩΝΙΩΝ, Apollo Klarias seated left, holding laurel branch and lyre. VF, porous brown surfaces. Drewry Coll.; Ex Burstein Coll., Peus 366, (10/2000), lot 639.00000
(5 votes)
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Phokaia (BC 387-326) B107 - EL 1/6 Stater1068 viewsca 387-326 BC. EL Hekte (2.53g). Head of Omphale left, wearing lion's skin; club over shoulder, small seal below / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF. Rare.00000
(5 votes)
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Phokaia (BC 477-388) B91 - EL 1/6 Stater 1065 viewsca 477-388 BC. EL Hekte (2.54g). Helmeted head of Athena right; small seal below / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF. 00000
(5 votes)
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Kolophon (BC 450-410) Tetartemorion605 viewsca 420-400 BC. AR Tetartemorion (0.31g). Head of Apollo right / Mark of value or monogram? within incuse square. VF, toned. Rare.00000
(5 votes)
   
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