IONIA COIN

[sinnb-sinnb]

When cleaning some coins today, I found this very nice Greek IONIA coin. I have been looking around on the net to find as much as possible about the coin, but I can't find out the Magistrate.
Can anyone help me?
Size: 18.1 mm.
Weignt: 3.17 g

[Molinari]

Magnesia on the Meander, maybe?

[Tom Mullally]

I agree, it is certainly Magnesia ad Menandrum.  The magistrate's name is below the bull.

Tom

[sinnb-sinnb]

Am I Wright that if I translate the lines under the bull letter by letter the text is:

GORGASOS
IGGOKRA

?

Thank you for your help.

[Molinari]

Gorgasos Ippokra.

[sinnb-sinnb]

Thank you

[djmacdo]

"Ippokra" is an abbreviated form of the common Greek name Hippokrates.

[sinnb-sinnb]

Thank you for the informations.

It then makes me have one more question: Gorgasos Ippokra (Hippokrates), is that the name of the ruler, the person that had this coin made or a ledgen?

[djmacdo]

He would be the official in charge of the mint at the time the coin was struck.  Or perhaps the official in charge of the city government at the time.  Unless there is some specific title--and there is none here--it is difficult to know if we are dealing with a mint official or an official with broader authority, such as the head of the city's government that  year.

[Pekka K]

The names may point to 2 persons too.

Pekka K

[Akropolis]

In rare cases, a prominent, wealthy family would pay for the production of local bronze coinage and their name would be inscribed on the coin.
PeteB

[OldMoney]

On these and coins from several other Ionian cities
the names shown generally take the form as follows:
Gorgasos (son of) Ippokrates.

Walter Holt

[Altamura]

This magistrate seems to be a rare one, but it occured in the Magnesian Hoard found 1999 in Turkey: https://www.academia.edu/1760954/_The_Magnesian_Hoard._A_Preliminary_Report_
On page 437 the number 22 in the list is the one.

Regards

Altamura

[sinnb-sinnb]

Thank you to you all. I am very happy that I now can catalog this coin in the right way.

Johnny

[Joe Sermarini]

This magistrate seems to be a rare one, but it occured in the Magnesian Hoard found 1999 in Turkey: https://www.academia.edu/1760954/_The_Magnesian_Hoard._A_Preliminary_Report_
On page 437 the number 22 in the list is the one.

Regards

Altamura

Thanks for sharing the link to this paper, which I will undoubtedly use in the future. I have added this reference to NumisWiki under Tekin Magnesia and to the list of references at the bottom of the Magnesia pages in the Forum shop.