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Teos (BC 530-500) Hemidrachm555 viewsca 6th century BC. AR Hemidrachm (3.26g). Forepart of griffin right, left forepaw raised / Quadripartite incuse square. VF.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 550-500) Eagle - EL 1/481123 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL 1/48th Stater (5mm, 0.27g). Eagle standing left, head reverted / Incuse punch. VF, head off the flan. Rare.
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Erythrai (BC 300-200) AE 16562 viewsca 3rd cent BC. AE16 (3.31g, 11h). Head of young Herakles right, wearing lion skin / ΜΗΤΡΑΣ - ΔΑΜΑΛΟΥ - ΕΡΥ in three lines. Brown-green patina, VF/aEF.
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Ephesos (AD 81-96) Denarius - Domitian450 viewsDomitian, as Caesar, struck 71 AD. AR Denarius (19mm, 2.71g, 6h). DOMITIANVS CAESAR AVG F, Laureate head right, bust draped and cuirassed / AVG; below "EPE" (very faint), oak wreath. VF, Rare. Tricarico coll.
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Samos (BC 600-570) EL 1/24 Stater877 viewsca 600-570 BC. EL 1/24 Stater (6mm, 0.77g). Samian-Euboeic standard. Geometric type. Rough obverse with irregular spiral markings / Incuse square punch. Good VF. Exceptionally clear obverse. Rare.
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Ephesos (AD 117-138) Cistophoric Tetradrachm - Hadrian890 viewsHadrian, 117-138 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (11.00g, 7h), struck after 128 AD. Bare-headed and draped bust right, seen from behind / Temple of Diana (Artemis) Ephesia: ornate tetrastyle temple set on three-tiered base, pediment decorated with figures; cult statue of Diana within. VF. Overstruck on a cistophorus of Mark Antony and Octavia.
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Phokaia (BC 521-478) B50 - EL 1/6 Stater978 viewsca 521-478 BC. EL Hekte (2.61g). Helmeted male head to left, with frontal eye and tendril ornament on bowl of helmet; below, seal swimming left / Rough quadripartite incuse square. Very rare. aEF.
The helmeted head must be that of a hero-warrior. The whole idea of using just a helmeted head with no individuality as a type is quite interesting; that there is a head inside the helmet is clear from the eye that peeks out above the side piece.
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Kolophon (AD 249-251) AE 29 - Herennia Etruscilla547 viewsHerennia Etruscilla, wife of Trajan Decius, 249-251 AD. AE29 (9.71g). Diademed bust right on crecent / Boxer walking right. Rare. Ex Burstein coll. Fine.
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Phokaia (BC 600-560) EL 1/6 Stater - B -1170 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 Stater857 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 - Gallienus210 viewsGallienus, 253-268 AD. AE25 (7.25g). AVT K Î O ΛIK ΓAΛΛIHNOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / ЄΦЄCΙΩΠΔ ÎЄΟΚΟΡΩÎ, prize crown with palm inscribed EΦECAI. gVF.Sep 25, 2019
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Metropolis (AD 254-268) AE 26 - Salonina246 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 - Salonina220 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 II225 viewsValerian II. Caesar, 256-258 AD. AE21 (4.56g). ΠΟ ΛΙΚ ΟΥΑΛЄΡΙΑÎΟC, bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ΤΗΙΩÎ, Apollo standing holding bow and laurel branch. VF.Sep 25, 2019
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Kolophon (BC 375-350) Drachm531 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) Tetrobol326 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
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