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Home ▸ Catalog ▸ |Greek Coins| ▸ |Geographic - All Periods| ▸ |Thrace & Moesia| ▸ |Dionysopolis||View Options:   | | | Dionysopolis was founded by Thracians and later colonized by Ionians who named it Krounoi. The city was renamed Dionysopolis during the second half of the 3rd century, after a statue of Dionysus was found in the sea nearby. Most of the types from Dionysopolis are scarce or rare. Today it is Balchik, Bulgaria, a Black Sea seaside resort town. |
Mithradates VI was king of Pontus c. 120 to 63 B.C. He was of both Greek and Persian origin, claiming descent from both Alexander the Great and King Darius I of Persia. Mithradates is remembered as one of Rome's most formidable and successful enemies, who engaged three of the most prominent generals of the late Roman Republic in the so-called Mithridatic Wars: Sulla, Lucullus, and Pompey the Great. After Mithradates VI was at last defeated by Pompey and in danger of capture by Rome, he attempted suicide. The poison failed because he had taken daily doses to build immunity. He then made his bodyguard and friend, Bituitus, kill him by the sword.GB98885. Bronze AE 22, SNG BM 1202; SNG Stancomb 697; Rec Gen p. 53, 24; HGC 7 243, gVF, toned bronze, light porosity/corrosion, weight 7.641 g, maximum diameter 22.4 mm, die axis 0o, Amisos (Samsun, Turkey) mint, c. 85 - 65 B.C.; obverse head of Dionysos right (with the features of Mithradates VI?), wearing ivy wreath; reverse cista mystica, on which rests panther skin and thyrsos, AMIΣOY below, monogram left; SOLD
Antoninus Pius, August 138 - 7 March 161 A.D., Dionysopolis, Moesia Inferior
Dionysopolis was founded by Thracians and later colonized by Ionians who named it Krounoi. The city was renamed Dionysopolis during the second half of the 3rd century B.C., after a statue of Dionysus was found in the sea nearby. Most of the types from Dionysopolis are scarce or rare. Today it is Balchik, Bulgaria, a Black Sea seaside resort town.RP73562. Brass assarion, Varbanov I 423 corr. (same dies, R8, listed as bare head in error, notes otherwise unpublished), VF, weight 4.294 g, maximum diameter 19.6 mm, die axis 0o, Rome mint, c. 146 A.D.; obverse ANTΩ CEBAC, laureate head right; reverse ΔIONVCOΠOΛEITΩ, flaming torch; very rare; SOLD
Dionysopolis, Moesia Inferior, c. 1st Century B.C.
Draganov identifies three names found in the exergue of this type: ΔΗΜOΦON, ΕYKΛΕOY, and ΗPAKΛΕIΔOY.GB38403. Bronze AE 22, Draganov Bronze 29, SNG Stancomb 124, SNG BM 217, VF, light cleaning scratches, weight 6.758 g, maximum diameter 22.3 mm, die axis 0o, Dionysopolis (Balchik, Bulgaria) mint, obverse turreted and veiled head of Demeter right; reverse ΔIONYΣOΣ, Demeter seated left on throne, phiale in right, stalk of grain in left, ΔΗMOΦΩN (magistrate) in exergue; SOLD
Dionysopolis, Moesia Inferior, c. 2nd - 1st Century B.C.
Examples of this type, usually in finer style, are dated by some numismatists to the late 3rd century B.C. Examples in this slightly less refined style are often dated to the 2nd century B.C. SNG Stancomb dates the type 1st century B.C. to 1st century A.D.CM54174. Bronze AE 25, SNG Stancomb 123 (same countermark) and 124 (same reverse die), SNG BM 217 var. (dated 3rd century B.C.), Draganov Bronze 29, SNG Cop -, gVF, weight 9.855 g, maximum diameter 25.0 mm, die axis 0o, Dionysopolis (Balchik, Bulgaria) mint, obverse turreted and veiled head of Tyche right, countermark: head in round punch; reverse ΔIONYΣOΣ, goddess seated left on throne, phiale in right, stalk of grain in right, ΔΗMOΦΩN (magistrate) in exergue; beautiful dark green patina, nice for the type with countermark; SOLD
Kingdom of Bithynia, Prusias II Kynegos, 185 - 149 B.C.
Prusias II, son of Prusias I, inherited his father's name but not his character. He first joined with Eumenes of Pergamon in war against Pontus, but later turned on Pergamon and invaded. He was defeated and Pergamon demanded heavy reparations. Prusias sent his son Nicomedes II to Rome to ask for aid in reducing the payments. When Nicomedes revolted, Prusias II was murdered in the temple of Zeus at Nikomedia.
Like satyrs, centaurs were notorious for being wild, lusty, overly indulgent drinkers and carousers, violent when intoxicated, and generally uncultured delinquents. Chiron, by contrast, was intelligent, civilized and kind. He was not related directly to the other centaurs. He was the son of the Titan Cronus and the Oceanid Philyr. The other centaurs were spawned by the cloud Nephele on the slopes of Mount Pelion. Apollo taught the young Chiron the art of medicine, herbs, music, archery, hunting, gymnastics and prophecy, and made him rise above his beastly nature. He became a renowned teacher who mentored many of the greatest heroes of myth including the Argonauts Jason and Peleus, the physician Asklepios, and Achilles of Troy.GB99271. Bronze AE 20, SNG Cop 639; BMC Pontus p. 211, 9; Rec Gen I p. 226, 26; HGC 7 629; SGCV II 7266, aVF, dark patina, spots of corrosion, reverse edge beveled, weight 5.240 g, maximum diameter 20.3 mm, die axis 0o, Nikomedia (Izmit, Turkey) mint, c. 180 - 150 B.C.; obverse head of young Dionysos right, wreathed with ivy; reverse centaur Chiron standing right, playing lyre, his animal skin cloak flying behind,
monogram inner right under raised foreleg, BAΣIΛEΩΣ downward on right, ΠPOYΣIOY downward on left; SOLDDionysopolis, Moesia Inferior, c. 1st Century B.C.
Dionysopolis was founded by Thracians and later colonized by Ionians who named it Krounoi. The city was renamed Dionysopolis during the second half of the 3rd century B.C., after a statue of Dionysus was found in the sea nearby. Most of the types from Dionysopolis are scarce or rare. Today it is Balchik, Bulgaria, a Black Sea seaside resort town.GB42792. Bronze AE 23, Draganov Bronze 27, VF, weight 6.613 g, maximum diameter 23.2 mm, die axis 0o, Dionysopolis (Balchik, Bulgaria) mint, c. 1st century B.C.; obverse turreted and veiled head of Demeter right; reverse ΔIONYΣOΣ ΔIONYΣIOY, Demeter turreted, seated left on throne, phiale in right; rare; SOLD
Dionysopolis, Moesia Inferior, Late 3rd - 2nd Century B.C.
Dionysopolis was founded by Thracians and later colonized by Ionians who named it Krounoi. The city was renamed Dionysopolis during the second half of the 3rd century B.C., after a statue of Dionysus was found in the sea nearby. Most of the types from Dionysopolis are scarce or rare. Today it is Balchik, Bulgaria, a Black Sea seaside resort town.GB48666. Bronze AE 19, Draganov Bronze 2 var. (no Σ), SNG Stancomb 110 (no Σ, monogram not mentioned), AMNG I/I -, BMC Thrace -, gF, weight 6.132 g, maximum diameter 19.1 mm, die axis 0o, Dionysopolis (Balchik, Bulgaria) mint, late 3rd - 2nd century B.C.; obverse young head of Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath; reverse ΔIONYΣ, vine with two bunches of grapes, monogram in right field; rare; SOLD
Dionysopolis, Moesia Inferior, c. Late 3rd - 1st Century B.C.
Draganov identifies three names found in the exergue of this type: ΔΗΜOΦON, ΕYKΛΕOY, and ΗPAKΛΕIΔOY. This magistrate is much scarcer than ΔΗΜOΦON.CM55339. Bronze AE 24, Draganov Bronze 29, SNG Stancomb 123 var. (different magistrate, same countermark), SNG BM 217 var. (different magistrate), SNG Cop -, F, nice green patina, weight 4.702 g, maximum diameter 24.0 mm, die axis 0o, Dionysopolis (Balchik, Bulgaria) mint, obverse turreted and veiled head of Demeter right, countermark: head in round punch; reverse ΔIONYΣΩ, Demeter, turreted, seated left on throne, phiale in right, stalk of grain in left, ΗPAKΛΕI/ΔOY (magistrate) in exergue; scarce variant; SOLD
Dionysopolis, Moesia Inferior, Late 3rd - 2nd Century B.C.
IΦI is the only magistrate Draganov lists for this type.GB48681. Bronze AE 17, Draganov Bronze 5, SNG Stancomb 115, AMNG I/I -, BMC Thrace -, aVF, weight 5.781 g, maximum diameter 16.9 mm, die axis 0o, Dionysopolis (Balchik, Bulgaria) mint, obverse turreted and veiled head of Demeter right; reverse ΔIONY / IΦIA, thyrsos left, ear of grain right; very rare; SOLD
Geta, 209 - c. 26 December 211 A.D., Dionysopolis, Moesia Inferior
Demeter in Greek mythology is the goddess of grain and fertility, the pure; nourisher of the youth and the green earth, the health-giving cycle of life and death; and preserver of marriage and the sacred law. In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, dated to about the seventh century B.C. she is invoked as the "bringer of seasons," a subtle sign that she was worshiped long before she was made one of the Olympians. She and her daughter Persephone were the central figures of the Eleusinian Mysteries that also predated the Olympian pantheon.RP63126. Bronze triassarion, Jekov Dionysopolis 3.1 (R3), Varbanov 488, AMNG -, SNG Cop -, BMC Thrace -, F, weight 5.430 g, maximum diameter 22.6 mm, die axis 0o, Dionysopolis (Balchik, Bulgaria) mint, obverse AY K Π CEΠ ΓETAC, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind; reverse ΔIONYCOΠOΛEITΩN, Demeter standing left, ears of grain downward in right, long flaming torch vertical behind in left, Γ (mark of value) in left field; SOLD
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