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Home ▸ Catalog ▸ |Themes & Provenance| ▸ |Nautical & Marine||View Options:   | | | Here we include coins that depict Poseidon, Neptune, ships, anchors, prows, dolphins, sea eagles, crabs, scallops, and all things related to the sea. |
The Philistines conquered Canaanite Ashkelon about 1150 B.C. and it became one of the five Philistine cities that were constantly warring with the Israelites and the Kingdom of Judah. The last of the Philistine cities to hold out against Nebuchadnezzar, it finally fell in 604 B.C.; burned and destroyed, its people exiled, the Philistine era ended. Ashkelon was rebuilt, dominated by Persian culture. After the Alexander's conquest, Ashkelon was an important Hellenistic seaport. The Jews drove the Greeks out of the region during the Maccabean Revolt, which lasted from 167 to 160 B.C. In 63 B.C. the area was incorporated into the Roman Republic. Cleopatra VII used Ashkelon as her refuge when her brother and sister exiled her in 49 B.C. The city remained loyal to Rome during the First Jewish Revolt.JD111833. Bronze AE 13, RPC Online III 3998; Sofaer 117; Rosenberger III, p. 74, 12; Baramki AUB 37, F, brown tone, highlighting earthen deposits, porous, weight 3.220 g, maximum diameter 13.4 mm, die axis 0o, Askalon (Ashqelon, Israel) mint, 116 - 117 A.D.; obverse ACKAΛ, draped bust of Tyche right, wearing turreted crown and veil,; reverse war galley with oars, acrostolium, and apluster, KC (year 220) above; $70.00 (€65.80)
Macedonian Kingdom, Demetrios I Poliorketes, 306 - 283 B.C.
Demetrius I Poliorketes (The Besieger), son of Antigonus I Monophthalmus, was given the title king by his father in 306 B.C. after he defeated Ptolemy I at the Battle of Salamis. In 294 he seized the throne of Macedonia by murdering Alexander V. The combined forces of Pyrrhus, Ptolemy and Lysimachus, forced him out of Macedonia in 288. Abandoned by his troops on the field of battle he surrendered to Seleucus in 286 and died in captivity in 283 B.C.GB99391. Bronze AE 12, HGC 3 1031 (R2); Newell 62 var. (control); AMNG III p. 181, 7 var. (control); SNG Cop -; SNG Alpha Bank -, VF, obverse off center, weight 2.013 g, maximum diameter 11.5 mm, die axis 180o, uncertain western Anatolian mint, c. 298 - 295 B.C.; obverse prow of war galley left, Athena on deck standing left blowing trumpet and holding stylis; reverse Poseidon Pelagaios standing left, brandishing trident with right hand, nude but for chlamys draped over extended left arm, B-A (BAΣIΛΕΩΣ - king) divided low across field (off flan), monogram (control) right; very rare; $60.00 (€56.40)
Phaselis, Lycia, c. 190 - 167 B.C.
Athena is the Greek goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice, strategic warfare, mathematics, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, and skill. She was believed to lead soldiers into battle as the war goddess Athena Promachos. The Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis was dedicated to her, along with numerous other temples and monuments across Europe, West Asia, and North Africa. Her usual attribute is the owl and Nike is her frequent companion.GB111741. Bronze AE 21, Heipp-Tamer B55; SNG Cop 126; SNGvA 4439; BMC Lycia p. 82, 18; Mionnet III p. 443, 69, aF, Light earthen deposits, weight 4.059 g, maximum diameter 20.6 mm, die axis 330o, Phaselis (near Tekirova, Turkey) mint, c. 190 - 167 B.C.; obverse prow of war galley right, Nike flying right above crowning acrostolium with wreath; reverse Athena standing right, wearing long chiton and helmet, aegis on left arm, wielding thunderbolt in right hand, Φ - A flanking across field below center; $60.00 (€56.40)
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