Asia Minor Coins - Photo Gallery

Ancient Greek and Roman coins from Asia Minor


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Parion (BC 100-0) AE 20299 views1st century BC. AE20 (5.56g). Altar / ΠΑ / PI within wreath. Overstruck on uncertain issue. VF.
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Parion (BC 100-0) AE 20154 viewsca 2nd-1st century BC. AE20 (6.67g). Metrodoros, magistrate. Head of Artemis right, bow and quiver over shoulder / ΠΑΡΙANΩN ΜΗΤΡΟ[ΔΩ]ΡΟY, eagle standing right, wings spread. aVF.
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Parion (BC 100-0) AE 22547 viewsca 1st cent BC. AE22 (4.71g). Square burning altar (altar of Parion?), one corner lifted; bukranion on front plate, thyrsos below / ΠΑΡΙ in olive wreath. Oversruck on? (rev. head of Demeter left). Dark green patina, gVF. Rare. Gutknecht coll.
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Parion (BC 165-143) Tetradrachm857 viewsca 165-143 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 16.95 g 12). Laureate head of Apollo to right / AΠOΛΩNOΣ AKTAIOΥ ΠAΡIANΩN, Apollo, laureate and draped to the waist, holding laurel branch in his right hand and resting his left on bow propped on the ground behind; on the left, ΔI above flaming altar; on the far left, monogram of TEY. Extremely rare, the only known example from this reverse die. gVF. PGB coll., acquired in 1970s.
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Parion (BC 165-160) Tetradrachm1324 viewsca 165-160 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.61g, 40mm). Laureate head of Apollo right / ΑΠΟΛΛΟΝΩΣ - ΑΚΤΑΙΟΥ, Apollo Actaeus standing left, holding laurel branch in right hand and resting left on grounded bow; ΔΙ ligate over altar to left, monogram to right, ΠΑΡΙΑΝΩΝ in exergue. Very broad flan, aEF. Extremely rare, only few specimens known.

The only Parion Hellenistic tetradrachms known, until recently, was the extremely rare issue showing veiled head of Demeter on obv. and Apollo Actaeus on rev. holding a phiale above a lighted alter, his left hand resting on a lyre placed on the omphalos, SNG Lewis 829, SNG France 1401 (both broken); L. Robert, Monnaies antiques en Troade, Paris, 1966, p. 43, f. This new and until very recently unrecorded issue was published by A.R. Meadows, NC 1998, pp 42-46. He compares both issues to the coinage of Alexandria Troas and determined that the tetradrachm Apollo/Apollo should be dated at around 165-143 and the tetradrachm Demeter / Apollo at a later date.
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Parion (BC 200-0) AE566 viewsca 2nd-1st cent BC. AE (10.72g). Gorgoneion facing / Bull standing left, ΠΑΡΙ above, uncertain symbol below. Red-brown patina, VF. Rare.
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Parion (BC 200-0) AE 11180 views2nd-1st century BC. AE11 (1.29g). Laureate head of Apollo right / ΠΑ-ΡΙ, lighted and garlanded altar. VF. Very rare.
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Parion (BC 200-0) AE 13140 viewsca 200-0 BC. AE13 (3.15g). Head of Athena right/ Bull walking right on ground line, ΠΑΡΙ above. aVF.
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Parion (BC 200-0) AE 14548 views2nd-1st cent BC. AE14 (3.50g). Facing head of Medusa / Owls standing facing on palm. VF, green patina. Rare. David Herman Coll.
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Parion (BC 200-0) AE 15187 viewsca 2nd-1st century BC. AE15 (3.89g). Facing head of Medusa / ΠΑ-Ρ-Ι, garlanded altar within wreath. VF. Very rare.
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Parion (BC 200-0) AE 17450 viewsca 2nd-1st cent. BC. AE17 (4.54g). Facing head of gorgon (Medusa?) / Bull standing R before garlanded altar. Nice VF, dark green patina.
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Parion (BC 200-0) AE 18576 viewsca 2nd-1st cent BC. AE18 (4.76g). Veiled bust of Demeter R, within dotted circle / Π-Α/Ρ-Ι, ear of barley between two pomegranates on stalks.
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Parion (BC 200-0) AE 18121 viewsca 2nd-1st century BC. AE18 (4.74g). Facing head of gorgon / ΠΑ-Ρ-Ι, garlanded altar within wreath. aVF.
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Parion (BC 200-0) AE 20780 viewsca 2nd-1st century BC. AE20 (8.56g). Laureate head of Apollo right / Bull butting left, ΠΑΡΙ above, monogram and caduceus below. EF, dark brown patina, a few small spots of roughness.
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Parion (BC 200-0) AE 23589 viewsca 2nd-1st cent. BC. AE23 (7.28g). Facing head of gorgon (Medusa?), countermark: monogram in incuse circle / Eagle standing right, monogram before. Good VF, dark green patina.
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Parion (BC 200-0) AE 23569 viewsca 2nd-1st cent BC. AE23 (5.41g, 6h). Facing head of Medusa / Eagle standing right; monogram to right. Coin without the usual countermarks. Very fine.
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Parion (BC 200-100) AE 16492 viewsca 2nd century BC. AE16 (4.19g). Female head right, hair bound in sakkos / ΠA, bull standing right. Nice VF, dark green patina. Apparently an unpublished type.
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Parion (BC 350-300) AE741 viewsca 350-300 BC. AE (5.76g). Bull butting right, grapes above / Π-Α/Ρ-Ι, altar of Parion; amphora standing in front. Dark green patina, VF. Ex Knopek Auk. (Koln, 1981), lot 162.
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Parion (BC 350-300) AE 9318 viewsca 350-300 BC. AE9 (0.95g). Bull butting right / Altar of Parion. gVF.
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Parion (BC 350-300) AE 9138 views4th century BC. AE9 (0.70g). Bull butting right / Π-Α, altar of Parion. aVF. Rare.
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Parion (BC 350-300) AE 14135 viewsca 350-300 BC. AE14 (2.52g). Bull butting left / Π-Α/Ρ-Ι, torch within wreath. aVF.
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Parion (BC 350-300) AE 19659 viewsca 350-300 BC. AE19 (6.20g). Bull butting right, grapes above / Π-Α/Ρ-Ι, altar of Parion; amphora standing in front.
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Parion (BC 350-300) AE 19181 viewsca 350-300 BC. AE19 (6.48g, 1h). Bull butting right; wreath above / Lit altar in three-quarter perspective; amphora set at base. VF, red-brown patina. Rare.
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Parion (BC 394-330) Hemidrachm924 viewsca 394-330 BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.35g, 15mm, 12h). Gorgoneion with protruding tongue facing, surrounded by aegis / Bull standing L, head turned to R, wreath below, ΠΑ / ΡΙ. nice EF.
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Parion (BC 400-300) Hemidrachm657 viewsca 4th cent BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.33g). Gorgoneion with protruding tongue facing, surrounded by aegis / Bull standing left, head turned to right, wreath below, ΠΑ / ΡΙ. gVF.
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Parion (BC 400-300) Hemidrachm591 viewsca 4th cent BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.21g). Gorgoneion with protruding tongue facing, surrounded by aegis, E above / Bull standing left, head turned to right, wreath below, ΠΑ / ΡΙ. gVF.
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Parion (BC 400-300) Hemidrachm855 viewsca 4th cent BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.63g, 12h). Gorgoneion facing, surrounded by aegis / Bull standing left, head turned back; star below. Attractively toned. Extremely fine. Ex Aufhauser 10 (10/1993), 107.
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Parion (BC 400-300) Hemidrachm836 viewsca 4th cent BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.29g, 3h, 14mm). Gorgoneion with protruding tongue facing, surrounded by aegis / Bull standing left, head turned to right, leaf? below, ΠΑ / ΡΙ. gVF.
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Parion (BC 400-300) Hemidrachm1081 viewsca 4th cent BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.45g). Bull left, looking right; PA above, PI and patera beneath / Gorgoneion facing, surrounded by aegis. VF.
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Parion (BC 400-300) Hemidrachm849 views4th cent BC. AR Hemidrachm (1.93g, 14mm, 10h). Facing gorgoneion / Bull standing left, head right; above, Nike standing left; tripod below. VF, minor deposits, light cleaning marks. Very rare.
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Parion (BC 400-300) Hemidrachm755 views4th century BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.3g, 13mm). Facing gorgoneion / ΠΑ/ΡΙ, bull standing left, head right; pileus on tripod above. gVF. Apparently unpublished.
 
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