Asia Minor Coins - Photo Gallery

Most viewed Ophryneion (BC 350-300) AE 111025 viewsca 350-300 BC. AE11 (1.28g). Laureate head of Zeus right / Warrior, wearing crested helmet, crouching left, holding shield and spear; ΟΦΡΥ to right. gVF, nice patina. Very rare. Zela (AD 193-217) AE 29 - Julia Domna1024 viewsJulia Domna, wife of Septimius Severus, 193-217 AD. AE29 (16.11g). Dated 206/7 AD. Draped bust right / ZΗΛΙΤ-ω-Ν ΤΟ-Î¥ ΠΟΝ six-column temple; in exergue, EΤ ΡΜΓ (= year 143 of local era). Rare, attractive very fine. Miletos (BC 600-550) EL 1/12 Stater1024 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL 1/12 Stater - Hemihekte (1.15g). Lion's head right / Punch with four pellets connected to central pellet. VF. Phokaia (BC 521-478) B44 - EL 1/6 Stater1024 viewsca 521-478 BC. EL Hekte (2.59g). Head of Ares left, wearing Attic helmet / Incuse with 6? divisions. VF. Rare. Ex Rosen coll. 593 and Lanz Auk. 52 (1990), lot 213. Kaisareia (AD 96-98) Didrachm - Nerva1023 viewsNerva, 96-98 AD. AR Didrachm (6.78g), dated COS IIII (98 AD). AVTOKPAT NЄROVAC KAICAP CЄBACTOC, laureate head right / VΠATOV TЄTAPTOV, club. Rare, VF. Ilion (BC 300-200) Diobol1023 viewsca 3rd century BC. AR Diobol (1.47g, 1h). Head of Athena right, wearing a crested helmet / Archaic cult statue of Athena Ilias left, holding spear and distaff, rose to left. Apparently unpublished. The only other example of the type I could find is from a Gorny & Mosch auction. That example weight 2.87g and is attributed as a hemidrachm. One could argue that it is a tetrobol based on the standards used at Ilion at the time. This would then be a diobol. Mytilene (BC 412-378) EL Hekte - B751022 viewsca 412-378 BC. EL Hekte (2.50g). Turreted head of Artemis-Kybele right, decorated with a palmette / Head of Hermes right, wearing petasos. Good VF. (BC 182-149) Prusias II - Tetradrachm1022 viewsPrusias II, 182-149 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.88g, 34mm, 12h). Diademed and winged head right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΡΟΥΣΙΟΥ, Zeus standing left, holding wreath in right hand, lotus tipped sceptre in left; to inner left, eagle standing left on thunderbolt, monograms below. Toned, aEF/VF. Ex Giessener Muenzhandlung Auc. 67 (5/1994), lot 202. Kyzikos (AD 0-100) AE 201021 viewsca 1st cent AD. AE20 (4.82g). Head of Kore right, grain ear in hair; within a wreath of grain / K-Y/ZI, caduceus, in the center of which is a gorgoneion, the handle is made of a club, crescent above, tunny below, monogram to right; all within a laurel wreath. Near EF, attractive green patina. (BC 392-377) Hekatomnos - Tetradrachm1021 viewsHekatomnos, Satrap, 392-377 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.63g), struck in Mylasa. Zeus Labraundos standing right, holding double-axe over shoulder and scepter / Lion standing right on ground line, about to jump, EKAT[OMNΩ] above. VF. Phokaia (BC 521-478) B14 - EL 1/6 Stater1021 viewsca 521-478 BC. EL Hekte (2.66g). Head of boar with beaded truncation left; seal below / Irregular incuse square. Very rare. EF. Salamis (BC 411-373) AV 1/10 Stater - Evagoras I1020 viewsEvagoras I, King of Salamis, 411-374 BC. AV 1/10th Stater (8mm, 0.70g). Bearded head of Herakles right wearing lion's skin headdress / Forepart of goat kneeling right. VF. Rare. Kyme (BC 320-250) AE 171020 viewsca 320-250 BC. AE17 (3.99g). Forepart of horse right, KY above, ΔΙΟΝΥCΙΟC (magistrate) below / One-handled vase, monogram to left. Dark green patina, gVF. Gutknecht coll. Aigeai (AD 216-217) Tetradrachm1020 viewsTime of Caracalla, 211-217 AD. Billon Tetradrachm (11.80g). About 216-217. AIΓEAIΩN ANTΩNIINO VΠOΛEΩC Bearded, draped bust of Asclepius r., thin band in the hair, snake-entwined staff at his l. shoulder / MAKEΔONIKHC ΠICTHC ΘEOΦIΛO, Octastyle temple of Asclepius on steps, statue of Asclepius within, wearing himation, holding snake-entwined staff; in the pediment, eagle flying l.; in the field, date Γ-Σ/C (= year 263 of the local era); below, goat r. between two pellets. For a similar tetradrachm honoring likewise Asclepius, see Prieur 86, 723 and H. Bloesch, Caracalla in Aigeai, Atti (Proceedings) Congresso Internazionale di Numismatica, Roma 1961 (1965), 307 seq. Unique, unpublished and very interesting type. Very fine. The sanctuary of Asclepius in Aegeae was certainly not as famous as the ones in Epidaurus, Kos or Pergamum, but still well known. The rather unusual use of base silver for these rare autonomous issues (dated 262 and 263 of the local era = AD 215/216 ans 216-217) as well as their types refer to an illness of Caracalla and of his attempt of being healed by visiting sanctuaries of Asclepius such as Pergamum and probably Aegeae. Phokaia (BC 477-388) B60 - EL 1/6 Stater1020 viewsca 430-350 BC. EL 1/6 Stater - Hekte (2.53g). Chalkidian helmet to left, with seal symbol swimming left on helmet / Four-part incuse square. Extremely rare type. The example in Bodenstedt is not better than this. VF. Kyzikos (BC 550-510) Obol1020 viewsca 600-525 BC. AR Trihemiobol(?) (1.12g, 9mm). Head of tunny right, superimposed on head of bull right / Incuse square. Good VF, toned. Kyzikos (BC 460-400) EL Stater1020 viewsca 460-400 BC. EL Stater (16.02g). Hermes kneeling right, right hand reaching into one-handled vase standing before him, and holding caduceus upwards in left hand / Quadripartite incuse square. Exceedingly rare, very few specimens known. A very interesting representation of superb style, EF. Ephesos (BC 390-330) Diobol1019 viewsca 387-295 BC. AR Diobol (1.02g). Bee with straight wings within dotted circle / Two stag heads confronted, ΕΦ above. EF. Kyme (BC 165-140) Tetradrachm1019 viewsca 165-140 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.59g, 12h). Euktemon, magistrate. Head of the Amazon Kyme right, wearing taenia / Horse prancing right; one-handled cup below; ΕΥΚΤΗΜΩΝ in exergue; all within wreath. Good VF. Kabeira (BC 120-100) AE 221019 viewsca 120-100 BC. AE22 (7.67g). Three-quarter facing head of gorgoneion, head turned slightly right, on an aegis / Nike walking right, holding palm. Near VF, glossy brown patina. Scarce. David Herman Coll. Smyrna (BC 301-288) AE 141019 views3rd century BC. AE14 (2.82g). Laureate head of Apollo right / ΣΜΥΡ-ΝΑ, tripod, crayfish below. gVF. (BC 230-220) Ariarathes III - AE1018 viewsAriarathes III, 230-220 BC. AE (4.80g), Eusebeia Tyana mint. Head right, wearing Bashlyk / ΑΡΙΑΡΑΘ - ΔΣ - ΤΥΑΝΑ, galloping rider right, palm to right. Dark brown patina, EF/VF. Very rare. Ilion (BC 188-133) Tetradrachm1018 viewsca 188-133 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.85g, 11h, 35mm). Euboulidos, "magistrate." Head of Athena right, wearing laureate and triple-crested Attic helmet / ΑΘΗΝΑΣ ΙΛΙΑΔΟΣ, Athena Ilias standing right, wearing polos and chiton, holding distaff in left hand, filleted spear over right shoulder, owl standing right at feet; monogram above caduceus in inner left field, ΕΥΒΟΥΛΙΔΟΥ in exergue. Good aEF/VF. Very rare. Tenedos (BC 188-70) Tetradrachm1017 viewsafter 189 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.76g). Janiform male and female heads, the male laureate and facing left, the female diademed and facing right / ΤΕΝΕΔΙΩΝ, double axe; cornucopiae to left, grape bunch to right; all within laurel wreath. Nice VF, well centered. Apparently an unrecorded variety with grape bunch to the right and cornucopiae symbol. Gambrion (BC 350-250) AE 161016 views4th cent BC. AE16 (3.99g) Laureate head of Apollo right / Large star, pellet in center, Γ−[Α−Μ] between rays. Ionia Uncertain (BC 625-550) Geometric - EL 1/121016 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL 1/12th Stater or Hemihekte (1.15g). Geometric designs. Nikomedeia (AD 117-138) Cistophoric Tetradrachm - Hadrian1016 viewsHadrian, 117-138 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (10.67g, 7h), struck after 128 AD. Bare head right / COM BIT, tetrastyle temple set on three-tiered podium, ROM S P AVG across frieze, no pellet in pediment; within, draped male figure standing right, holding sceptre and Victory. VF, trace of porosity on reverse. Attractive portrait. Ionia Uncertain (BC 650-600) thunderbolt - EL 1/6 Stater1016 viewsca 600 BC. EL 1/6 Stater - Hekte (2.38g). Milesian Standard. Thunderbolt / Double incuse square punch. Good VF. (BC 228-183) Prusias I - AE 271016 viewsPrusias I Cholos, 228-183 BC. AE27 (10.50g, 12h). Laureate head of Apollo left / Athena Nike standing left; monogram to inner left. Good VF, dark green patina, adjustment marks on reverse. Drewry Coll. (BC 128-94) Nikomedes III - Tetradrachm1015 viewsNikomedes III, 128-94 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.14g, 32mm). Dated CY 203 (95/94 BC). Diademed head right / Zeus standing left, holding wreath and sceptre; eagle on thunderbolt above monogram and date to left. Nice VF, small flan flaw behind head. Gargara (BC 440-400) Obol1014 viewsca 420-400 BC. AR Obol (0.63g) Male head (Apollo?) right / Ram's head right, ΓΑΡ above, within incuse square. VF, light porosity. Scarce. Ephesos (BC 625-600) EL 1/48 Stater1014 viewsPhanes, ca 625-600 BC. EL 1/48 Stater (0.29g). Head of stag right; three pellets to left / Incuse square punch with raised lines within. Unpublished variety with pellets, for type without see: VF, well centered strike. Unique. Paphos (BC 450) Stater - Stasandros1014 viewsStasandros, King of Paphos, ca 450 BC. AR Stater (21mm, 11.09g, 12h). Bull standing left, winged solar disk (Ahura-Mazda) flying above, ankh symbol to left / Eagle sitting left; jug to left, Cypriot letters around, within dotted incuse square. Very rare. Gergis (BC 320-270) AE 121014 viewsca 320-270 BC. AE12 (1.52g). Three-quarter facing head of Sibyl Herophile, turned slightly right, wearing laurel wreath and pendanted necklace / Sphinx seated right, ΓΕΡ to right. Dark green patina, EF. Rare. Phokaia (BC 477-388) B59 - EL 1/6 Stater1014 viewsca 480-450 BC. EL 1/6 Stater - Hekte (2.57g). Ram standing right, turning head backwards and scraping his nose; beneath, seal swimming left / Four-part incuse square. Quite rare. Exceptionally interesting presentation of the subject. VF. Abydos (AD 222-235) AE 37 - Severus Alexander1014 viewsSeverus Alexander, 222-235 AD. AE37 - Medallion (25.34g). Laureate and cuirassed bust right / Hero Abydos (?) before cow with (?) calf, in the background tree and prora. A bit tooled. VF. (BC 228-183) Prusias I - AE 231013 viewsPrusias I, 228-183 BC. AE23 (9.92g). Diademed head of Zeus right / Thunderbolt, ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ / ΠΡΟΥΣΙΟΥ above and below, within wreath. Good VF, glossy dark brown patina with some green encrustation. (BC 130-116) Ariarathes VI - Drachm1013 viewsAriarathes VI, Epiphanes Philopator, 130-116 BC. AR Drachm (4.12g), Eusebeia Tyana mint, dated year 4 (126/125 BC). Head with band right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ - ΑΡΙΑΡΑΘΟΥ - ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ, Athena left, holding spear and shield in left hand, Nike in right; monogram to left, A to right, Δ (date) in exergue. EF. Gergis (BC 350-241) AE 1013 viewsca 4th-3rd century BC. AE (3.55g). Three-quarter facing head of Sibyl Herophile, turned slightly right, wearing laurel wreath and pendanted necklace / Sphinx seated right, monogram to left, ΓΕΡ to right, caduceus in exergue. EF, green patina. Phokaia (BC 600-522) B01 - EL 1/24 Stater1013 viewsca 625/00 BC. EL 1/24 Stater (0.62g, 7mm). Head of griffin right / Quadripartite incuse square. Near EF. Well centered. Very rare. This issue is possibly from the earliest coinage at Teos; see: M. Matzke, JNG 50, p. 43, "Serie 0" Phokaia (BC 600-522) B01 - EL 1/6 Stater1012 viewsca 625/0-522 BC. EL Hekte – 1/6 Stater (2.60g). Forepart of seal right; behind, small seal right; circle below / Incuse punch. EF. Unique. Lydia Uncertain (BC 5th cent) Tetartemorion1012 views5th century BC. AR Tetartemorion (6mm, 0.18g, 9h). Head of ram right; decorative lines below; above, 'FALFAK' in Lydian / Helmeted head of Athena right; to lower right, TK in Lydian. Good VF. Kyme (BC 100) AE 201011 viewsAfter 190 BC. AE 16 (4.10g). Artemis standing right, clasping hands with Kyme (?) standing left / Two figures in quadriga right, one holds spear. Nice VF, green-brown patina. Freedman Coll. Abydos (BC 320-280) Drachm1011 viewsca 411-387 BC. AR Hemidrachm (13mm, 2.68g, 12h). Kephalos, magistrate. Laureate head of Apollo right / Eagle standing left; thymiaterion in wreath to left, [KE]ΦAΛOY to right. VF, toned, slight die shift and spots of encrustation on reverse. Rare. Pontos Uncertain (BC 130-100) AE 111011 viewsca 130-100 BC. AE11 (1.48g). Head of horse right, with star on neck / Comet. gVF. Ephesos (BC 550-500) 1/61010 viewsca 550 BC. AR Obol (0.51g). Bee / Quadripartite incuse. Good VF, typical light porosity. Nikaia (AD 260-261) AE - Macrianus1010 viewsMacrianus, 260-261 AD. AE - 8 Assaria (7.70g). Radiate and draped bust right / City wall. Brown patina. Very fine. The reverse shows the city wall of Nikaia which needed to be fortified after invasions of the Goths. Most of it is still preserved. Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/6 Stater1010 viewsca 500-450 BC. EL Hekte (2.66g). Triton left, holding wreath in left hand; tunny left below / Mill sail pattern quadripartite incuse square. Rare. Reddish tone and good very fine. Ephesos (BC 202-150) Drachm1010 viewsca 202-150 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 3.76g, 11h). Satyros, magistrate. Bee / Stag standing right; palm tree in background. VF, iridescent tone, flan crack. Apameia (BC 100-48) AE 351009 viewsca 133-48 BC. Medallic AE35 (20.74g). Bust of Athena right, wearing high-crested Corinthian helmet and aegis; set within an incuse beaded circle surrounded by a raised circle with two raised borders / ΑΠΑΜΕΩΝ, eagle alighting on basis with meander pattern, flanked by caps of the Dioskouroi, star above; magistrate ΚΩΚΟΥ. Good VF, brown patina with some rub on the high points, several patches of hard red encrustation. Very rare and quite spectacular. For other 'Medallic' issues see BMC Phrygia pl. x, 2-3 and SNG von Aulock 3469. Kibyra (AD 147-175) AE 35 - Faustina Jr.1009 viewsFaustina Jr., wife of Marcus Aurelius. Augusta, 147-175 AD. AE35 (22.56g, 6h). Homonoia with Hierapolis. Claudius Philocles, magistrate. FAVCTEI NA CEBACTH, draped bust R, hair tied back in chignon / KIBVPATWN K IERAPOLITWN EPI KL FILOKLEOC OMONOIA, female figure, draped and veiled, holding two children, standing R before Zeus, enthroned L, who holds Pegasus in outstretched R hand and sceptre in L. EF, dark brown patina, flan flaws on reverse and edge. From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex CNG 63 (5/2003), lot 1015. The identity of the female on rev is uncertain in references; Franke & Nolle describe her as Leto, mother of Apollo and Artemis; BMC simple calls her a goddess. Neither describe Pegasus being held by Zeus, and this may be the clue to her identity and the relevance of the scene. Pegasus, born of Medusa and tamed by Bellerophon, later throws off his mortal master and ascends to heaven, where he becomes the horse of Zeus and symbol of immortality, associated with the apotheosis of semi-divine mortals. The veiled female figure may be Faustina herself, presenting to Zeus her twin children, Aelius Aurelius and Aurelius Antoninus, who died shortly after their birth in 149. Mytilene (BC 377-326) EL Hekte - B1041008 viewsca 377-326 BC. EL Hekte (2.55g). Young male head with Horn of Ammon (Karneios?) right / Eagle standing right, head reverted, within linear square. aEF. Alexandreia (AD 253-268) Aureus - Gallienus1008 viewsGallienus, 253-268 AD. AV 'Aureus' (6.98g, 22mm, 9h). Struck north of the Danube with dies stolen from the mint of Alexandria Troas, after 262 AD. IMP LICINI GALLIENVS, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of right, seen from behind / COL AVGO / TRO, horse grazing right. Of the highest rarity. Very light marks on the reverse, gEF. Karia Uncertain (BC 400-340) Hemiobol1007 viewsca 400-340 BC. AR Hemiobol (ca 0.4g). Head of lion turned left, within linear circular border / Head of bull left, Carian letter behind. About extremely fine. Larisa (BC 400-300) Triobol1007 viewsca early 4th century BC. AR Triobol (1.97g). Head of nymph right / ΛΑΡΙΣΑΙ, amphora, within incuse square. Toned VF, heavy encrustation. Unpublished, probably unique. Until recently, the coins of Larisa Troas were believed to be from Larisa Phrikonis in Aiolis. Silver coins from this city are extremely rare, with only four published specimens, all of which are diobols (Winterthur 2767; Traite' II 2064; Imhoof-Blumer, "Antike Griechishe Muenzen," SNR 19 (1913), 87; and Wroth, "Greek Coins acquired by the British Museum in 1901," NumChron 1902, 26). Thus, this apparently unique specimen is the largest silver coin known for Larisa. Ilion (BC 85-84) Tetradrachm1007 viewsca 85-84 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.72g, 12h). Period of the First Mithradatic War. Menephronostos, son of Menephron, "magistrate." Head of Athena right, wearing a laureate, crested helmet / ΑΘΗΝΑΣ Ι−ΛΙΑΔΟΣ, Athena Ilias standing right, wearing polos and chiton, distaff in left hand, filleted spear over right shoulder, Pegasos at feet right; monogram behind, ΜΕΝΕΦΡΟΝΟΣΤΟΥ ΜΕΝΕΦΡΟΝΤΟΣ in exergue. Good VF, lightly toned, broad flan, well centered. Rare. Lampsakos (BC 350-250) AE 201007 views4th-3rd cent BC. AE20 (7.72g). ΛΑΜ, laureate female head right, wearing earring / ΨΑ, forepart of Pegasos right, uncertain symbol below. Dark green glossy patina, aEF. Rare. Good style. Gutknecht coll.; ex Freedman coll. and CNG Triton V (New York, 2002), lot 437. Kyme (BC 250-190) AE 161007 viewsca 250-200 BC. AE16 (2.85g). Head of the Amazon Kyme right, wearing diadem and chignon / Forepart of horse right, KY above, one-handled cup to left, ΛΕΣΒΙΟΣ (magistrate) below. Dark green patina, VF. Gutknecht coll. Tralleis (BC 300-200) AE 181007 viewsas Seleukeia, 3rd century BC. AE18 (3.75g). Laureate head of Zeus right / Bull standing left, head facing; ΣΕΛΕΥΚΕΩΝ above, ΠΥΡΡΟΣ in exergue; all within circular maeander pattern. Rare issue. Fine green patina, EF. Gutknecht coll. Kition (BC 392-361) Stater - Melekiathon1007 viewsMelekiathon, King of Kition, 392-361 BC. AR Stater (20mm, 9.88g), struck ca 370 BC. Herakles advancing right, wearing full lion skin on shoulders, club in raised right hand, bow in outstretched left hend; within dotted circlular border / Lion walking right on ground line, head facing. Very rare - 4th known. aEF. Amaseia (AD 222-235) AE 32 - Severus Alexander1007 viewsSeverus Alexander, 222-235 AD. AE32 (23.13g), dated 228 (228/9 AD). ΑΥΤ Κ ΣΕΟΥΗΡΟΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. / ΑΔΡ ΣΕΥ ΑΛΕ ΑΜΑΣΙΑΣ ΜΗ ΝΕ ΠΡ / ΠΟΝ ΕΤ ΣΚ/Η] view of city with walls and two temples. Red brown patina. VF. Kolone (BC 400-300) AE 161007 views4th century BC. AE16 (4.17g, 9h). Laureate helmeted head of Athena right / 9-ray star, ΚΟΛΟΝΑEΩΝ between rays. VF, green patina. Rare. Alighieri Coll. (BC 37-25) Amyntas - AE1006 viewsAmyntas, 36-25 BC. Ankyra? AE (7.16g). Head of bearded Herakles right, club over shoulder / Lion walking right on ground line; B above, monogram in exergue. Dark green patina, EF. Rare. Kerasos (AD 225/226) AE 29 - Severus Alexander1006 viewsSeverus Alexander, 222-235 AD. AE29 (10.93g), struck 225/226 AD. Laureate draped bust right / KERACOU- NTIwN, helmeted Roma sitting left, spear in left hand, cornucopiae and Nike with wreath in right; date ET RXB (= Year 162 of Local era) below. VF. Very rare. Righetti Coll. Kyzikos (AD 100-200) AE 181006 viewsca 2nd cent AD. AE18 (4.35g, 9h). Draped bust of Kore Soteira right, wearing taenia; all within wreath / Triton right, holding rudder and fish. Good VF, black-green patina. Rare. Mytilene (BC 412-378) EL Hekte - B731005 viewsca 412-378 BC. EL Hekte (2.51g). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet / Head of Artemis-Kybele right, wearing stephane, within linear incuse square. Good VF, sharp strike. (BC 182-149) Prusias II - AE 181005 viewsPrusias II, 182-149 BC. AE18 (3.56g). Head of Prusias right, wearing winged diadem / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΡΟΥΣΙΟΥ, naked Herakles standing left, lion skin under arm, holding club; monogram to right. Dark patina, gVF. Gutknecht coll. Memnon (BC 340-334) Siglos1005 viewsMemnon of Rhodes, Satrap in Ionia, ca 340-334 BC. Ephesos? AR Siglos (5.46g, 3h). Persian king or hero in kneeling-running stance right, holding dagger and bow / Incuse relief map of the hinterland of Ephesos(?). Good VF, trace of encrustation on reverse. Extremely rare. The reverse depicts what Johnston interprets as a relief map of the hinterland of Ephesos (the earliest Greek map and first physical relief map known) - the mountains Tmolos and Messogis between the river valleys of the Caister and Maeander, and three mountain ridges (Madranbaba Dagi, Karincali Dagi, and Akaba Tepesi). Johnston follows Six in suggesting that the coins were probably struck under the Persian general Memnon at Ephesos, circa 336-334 BC, in order to pay his army after he had captured the city, but before his defeat by Alexander at the Battle of Granicus in 334. However, this theory is still debated and doubted by some scholars, most recently by Leo Mildenberg. (BC 116-101) Ariarathes VII - Drachm1005 viewsAriarathes VII Philometor, ca 112/0-100 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 3.24g), dated RY 8 (108/7 BC). Diademed head right / Athena standing left, holding Nike and resting hand on shield set on ground, spear leaning against arm; O/M monogram - Λ across field, H (date) in exergue. VF, toned, light scratches. Strickhausen Coll.; Ex CNG 37 (3/1996), lot 598; Ambassador Eric von Post Collection. Kolone (BC 400-300) AE 111005 views4th century BC. AE11 (1.40g). Head of Athena right, wearing Attic helmet / 9-ray star, ΚΟΛΟΝΑΩΝ between rays. Rare. Kios (BC 350-300) Drachm - Proxenos1004 viewsca 350-300 BC. AR Drachm (5.07g). Laureate head of Apollo right, KIA below / Prow of galley left, ΠΡΟΞ-ΕΝΟΣ (magistrate) above and below. EF, attractive style, light porosity. A rare denomination and apparently unrecorded for this magistrate. Klazomenai (BC 375-340) AE1004 viewsca 4th century BC. AE (4.90g). Head of Athena facing slightly to right, wearing Attic helmet / Ram walking right, ΚΛΑZΟΜΕ/ΝΙΩΝ above, thunderbolt to right. Light brown patina, VF. Phokaia (BC 521-478) 1/12 Stater1004 viewsca 521-478 BC. AR 1/12 Stater (1.15g). Head of archaic nymph (Artemis?) left, earring in the form of Θ on cheek / Quadripartite incuse square. Fine dark toning, VF. Interesting variant. Phokaia (BC 387-326) B107 - EL 1/6 Stater1004 viewsca 387-326 BC. EL Hekte (2.54g). Head of Omphale left, wearing lion skin headdress; club behind, [small seal below] / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF, lightly toned. Well struck and centered. Lapethos (BC 425) Stater1004 viewsca 425 BC. AR Stater (10.84g, 1h). Helmeted head of Athena left / Head of Herakles, wearing lion skin, right in incuse square. VF, toned, die break on reverse. Extremely rare, apparently the third known. Kebren (BC 400-300) AE 91004 viewsca 387-310 BC. AE9 (1.05g, 6h). Ram's head right; K below / Laureate head of Apollo right. Near EF, black patina, very minor patch of roughness on cheek of Apollo. Well centered. Philomelion (BC 2nd-1st cent) AE 221003 viewsca 2nd-1st cent BC. AE22 (8.12g). Winged bust of Nike right, draped and with palm branch behind shoulder / Two cornucopiae crossed; between them, thunderbolt surmounted by star and crescent; ΦΙΛΟΜΗΛ[Ε] above, MEN-EMA below. gVF. Rare. Lampsakos (BC 45) AE 161003 viewsTime of Julius Caesar, circa 45 BC. AE16 (4.28g). C G I L head of Janus / Q∙ LVCRET L ∙PONT∙ IIVIR [C]OL∙ DED∙ PR∙, prow. Very rare. Good very fine. Julius Caesar was the probably the founder of a colony at Lampsacus for veterans; maybe a twin foundation with Parium. The colony seems to have disappeared after its occupation by Sextus Pompey. Types made during this short period are traditional Republican. M. Turius was probably a legate of one of the Caesarian proconsuls of Asia. Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/6 Stater1003 viewsca 500-450 BC. EL Hekte - 1/6 Stater (2.65g). Boar standing left on tunny left / Quadripartite incuse punch. EF. Boldly struck in high relief. Apameia (AD 193-211) AE 36 - Septimius Severus1003 viewsSeptimius Severus, 193-211 AD. AE36 (22.99g). Agonotheten Artemas. AVT∙K∙Λ∙CЄΠT - CЄOVHPOC ΠЄP-TI, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / [ЄΠI AΓO]NOΘЄ TO V APTЄMA, in ex. AΠAMЄΩ/N, Noah and his whife standing in enclosing square chest (Latin, arca; Greek, kibotos) with raised lid on which perches a raven (?) right, facing left; floating on waves and inscribed with NΩE; to left, standing figures, as above but full-length, of Noah and spouse, gazing upwards, latter outermost, and raising right hands, elbows bent, in salutation to dove flying right above them, grasping olive-branch in claws. Unpublished (?). Four times holed in antiquity. VF. The coin is a testimony for the mutual recognition and respect between the Jewish community and the city of Apameia Kibotos, which integrated the Jewish myth of Noah's ark into her own traditions: Noah got ashore with his 'Kibotos' ('chest') at Apameia; the Jewish people of Apameia were descendants of Noah. Ephesos (AD 41-54) Cistophoric Tetradrachm - Claudius & Agrippina II1003 viewsClaudius and Agrippina Junior, 41-51 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (11.28g). 51 AD. TI CLAVD CAES AVG AGRIPP AVGVSTA, jugate heads of Claudius and Agrippina right / DIANA EPHESIA, cult statue of Artemis Ephesia. Rare. Toned, reverse small scratches, EF. Fritz Steinmetz coll. Apameia (AD 253-268) AE 24 - Gallienus1002 viewsGallienus, 253-268 AD. AE24 (8.48g). Radiate bust right / COL IVL C - O - N - C AVG [APAM] / D - D, Sarapis in Chiton and Himation standing facing, head with kalathos to left, holding scepter in left hand, right hand raised in greeting, burning altar to left. Dark olive-green patina, VF. Ionia Uncertain (BC 570-540) Stag - EL 1/61002 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Hekte - 1/6 Stater (2.61g). Phokaian standard. Figural type. Forepart of stag running right / Quadripartite incuse square. Unpublished. VF. Apparently unique. Ionia Uncertain (BC 650-600) EL 1/12 Stater 1002 viewsca 650-600 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (6mm, 1.18g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Striated type. Flattened striated surface / Incuse square. Good VF, thin test cut on edge. (BC 340-334) Pixodaros - Didrachm1001 viewsPixodaros, Satrap, 341-336 BC. AR Didrachm (7.04g, 12h). Laureate head of Apollo facing slightly right / ΠΙΞΟΔΑΡΟΥ, Zeus Labraundos standing right. EF, light golden toning around devices. Ex Gorny & Mosch 107 (4/2001), lot 197. Dia (BC 120-63) AE 211001 viewsca 120-63 BC. AE21 (8.49g). Laureate head of Zeus right / Eagle standing on thunderbolt left, head right; monogram to left, ΔΙΑΣ below. Brown patina, gVF. Rare city. Gutknecht coll. Gentinos (BC 350-300) AE 131001 viewsca 4th cent BC. AE13 (2.05g). Head of Artemis, hair rolled up / Bee, [Γ]-Ε/Ν, palm tree to left. Dark green patina, EF/gVF. Rare. Gutknecht coll., ex Sternberg Auc. XV (Zurich, 1985), lot 120. Kebren (BC 412-399) AE 101000 viewsca 4th century BC. AE10 (0.94g). Two ram's heads back to back, facing outwards, floral ornament between / KE monogram. Nice VF, gray-black patina. Freedman Coll. Herakleia ad Latmon (BC 165) Tetradrachm1000 viewsafter 165 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.57g). Head of Athena right, wearing ornately decorated helmet, Pegasos above raised ear flap, five horses on visor, star on ear flap / Club, ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΩΝ above, two monograms and Nike holding wreath below, all within oak wreath. EF, elegant style, some peripheral weakness as usual. (BC 377-353) Maussollos - Stater1000 viewsMaussollos, Satrap, 377-353 BC. AR Stater (13.11g), struck 377-367 BC in Miletos. Forepart of lion left, MA above / Stellate pattern (star?). Very rare denomination, VF. Myriandros (BC 337-333) Hemiobol1000 viewsca 337-333 BC? AR Hemiobol (0.36g). Bearded head of male left, wearing pointed cap (Artaxerxes III Ochos?) / Beardless head of male left, wearing pointed cap (Dareios III Kodomannos?). Toned, EF. Extremely rare.1 comments Aizanis (BC 200-0) AE 201000 viewsca 2nd-1st cent BC. AE20 (8.26g). Helmeted and draped male bust right / Free horse walking right. Nice VF, black patina shadowed by orange. Kos (BC 480-470) Triple Siglos1000 viewsca 480/70 BC. AR Triple Siglos (16.60g). [ΚΟΣ], Nude male youth in the process of hurling a disc. He is standing facing, weight on his right leg, while the left leg is crossing behind, the upper part of the body bent to its right side for getting into stride. On the left, the prize of the contest: a huge tripod. In the center, a flaw-spot. Dotted border / Irregular square incuse with diagonal lines. Of exceptional beauty and rarity. This is the last die of the first class of this issue. EF. Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL Stater1000 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Stater (16.30g). Head of tunny fish left, jaws closed, backbone protruding from truncation at right. Below, tail of tunny fish / Quadripartite incuse square. Apparently unpublished denomination with this type. VF. The tuna was the sole type on the earliest electrum coinage of Cyzicus, but the relationship between type variety and denomination was inconsistent. In some series a whole tuna indicated a stater and just part of the fish indicated a smaller denomination, but our coin is a stater and shows just the head and the tail of a tuna. In any case all staters of this early period are very rare, and this type seems to be unpublished. Phokaia (BC 387-326) B110 - EL 1/6 Stater1000 viewsca 387-326 BC. EL Hekte (2.6g, 11mm). Head of Nymph left, hair bound / Quadripartite incuse square. VF. Miletos (BC 600-550) EL 1/6 Stater1000 viewsLydia (?), uncertain mint, mid 6th century BC. AV (or EL) Hekte (2.34g). Forepart of lion left / Bipartite rectangular punch with floral pattern. Apparently unique. An issue of great importance and fascination, about extremely fine. Ex Leu 50 (1990), 165 and CNG 26 (1993), 98. Ankyra (AD 130) AE 35 - Antinous999 viewsAntinoos, favorite of Hadrian, died 130 AD. AE35 (25.11g). Julius Saturninus, magistrate. QEOC ANTINOOC, bare head right / IOUL CATOPNINOC ANKVPANOIC, the god Men standing left, wearing cloak and cap, crescent on shoulder, holding anchor and sceptre. Near VF, glossy black patina. Kalchedon (BC 387-340) Drachm999 viewsmid 4th cent BC. AR Drachm (3.81g). Bull standing left above grain ear, ΚΑΛΧ above, caduceus and B to left, A below belly / Quadripartite, granulated incuse square. EF. Drewry Coll.; Ex Christie's (6/1993), lot 39. Ephesos (BC 500-420) 1/24999 viewsca 500-420 BC. AR Milesian 1/64th or Persic 1/48 Stater (6mm, 0.18g). Bee with curved wings / Eagle’s head right. Good VF, typical light porosity. Pergamon (BC 200-133) AE 21999 viewsca 200-133 BC. AE21 (5.50g, 12h). Helmeted head of Athena right / ΑΘΗΝΑΣ ΝΙΚΗΦΟΡΟΥ, trophy of arms, EΦ to lower right. 14853 coins on 149 page(s) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 - 149