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7 GallienusGallienus
Æ27 of Smyrna, Ionia
O: AVT K ΠΛIK_[IN] ΓAΛΛIHNOC, Laureate draped cuirassed bust right
R: CMYPNAIΩN Γ N_EΩKOPΩN[..] IΠ[ΠIKOV] ΦIΛH_TOV, the Amazon Smyrna, turreted and cuirassed, standing left, holding bipennis and pelta right.
SNG Copenhagen 1410var
Thanks to FORVM member Andreas Reich and www258pair.com for help IDing this coin.Sosius
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006a3. NeroAE16. 16mm, 3.04 g. Lydia, Thyateira. 50-54 AD. Obv: NEΡΩN KΛAYΔIOC KAICAΡ ΓEP, draped bust right. Rev: ΘYATEIΡHNΩN, double-headed axe (bipennis). SGI 593, SNG Cop 595-7, RPC 2381.lawrence c
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1962 LYDIA, Mostene Sabina Bipennis, grapes, cornReference.
RPC III, 1962/7; Winterthur 3831; BMC 10
Obv. СΑΒΕΙΝΑ СΕΒΑСΤΗ
Draped bust of Sabina, right
Rev. ΜΟСΤΗΝΩΝ
Double axe (Bipennis) between grapes and ears of corn
2.88 gr
14 mm
6hokidoki
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3266 CILICIA, Tarsus Hadrian Tridrachm Sandan Reference.
RPC III 3266/17; Prieur 767; SNG BN 1407-9.
Issue Second group
Obv. ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΘΕ ΤΡΑ ΠΑΡ ΥΙ ΘΕ ΝΕΡ ΥΙ ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕ.
Laureate head of Hadrian, r. with drapery on l. shoulder
Rev. ΤΑΡϹΕΩΝ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΩϹ.
Sandan, wearing tall headdress and long cloak, standing, r., on horned lion; he wears on his l. side bow-case and sword crossing the bow-case; his r. hand is raised and he holds bipennis and wreath in l.
10.20 gr
25 mm
12h
Note.
Sandan was a Hittite High God, and like all the High Gods, his feet were believed never to touch the earth. Riding on the back of a powerful mythical animal, as Sandan does here with a horned lion, was an often-used means of transportation for these Gods. Sandan's appearance on a 2nd Century AD Cilician coin shows the lasting impact of the Hittite occupation of Cilicia, which occurred 18 centuries before this coin was struck.okidoki
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3267 CILICIA, Tarsus Hadrian Tridrachm Sandan standingReference.
RPC III, 3267/8; Levante 996; Prieur 768
Issue Second group
Obv. ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΘΕ ΤΡΑ ΠΑΡ ΥΙ ΘΕ ΝΕΡ ΥΙ ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕ
Laureate head of Hadrian, r. with balteus and drapery on l. shoulder.
Rev. ΤΑΡϹΕΩΝ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΩϹ
Sandan, wearing tall headdress and long cloak, standing, r., on horned lion; he wears on his l. side bow-case and sword crossing the bow-case; his r. hand is raised and he holds bipennis and wreath in left.
9.94 gr
26 mm
12h
Note.
Sandan (or Sandon or Sandas) was an ancient Anatolian god associated with both war and the weather, and was known in the area of Tarsos from Hittite times (the second half of the 2nd millenium BC). The figure of Sandan on a lion first appears on the coinage of Tarsus in the 2nd century BC, but it was certainly much older. The shrine to Sandan in Tarsus existed at least until the 3rd century AD okidoki
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3268 CILICIA, Tarsus Hadrian Tridrachm Sandan Reference.
RPC III, 3268/9; Prieur 769
Obv. ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΘΕ ΤΡΑ ΠΑΡ ΥΙ ΘΕ ΝΕΡ ΥΙ ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟⳞ ⳞΕ
Laureate and cuirassed (decorated with gorgoneion) bust of Hadrian, right
Rev. ΤΑΡⳞΕΩΝ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΩⳞ
Sandan, wearing tall headdress and long cloak, standing, r., on horned lion; he wears on his l. side bow-case and sword crossing the bow-case; his r. hand is raised and he holds bipennis and wreath in left
9.97 gr
26 mm
12hokidoki
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6357 EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian Nome Obol 126-27 AD Athena standing Reference.
RPC III, 6357; Emmett 1218; Milne 1237p
Issue Oxyrhynchite
Obv. AYT KAI TPAI ADPIA CEB
laureate head right.
Rev. OΞVP, L IA
Athena standing facing, head left, holding bipennis and Nike.
4.10 gr
20.2 mm
12hokidoki
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6358 EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian Dichalkon 126-27 AD BipennisReference.
Emmett 1283.11; RPC III, 6358
Issue Oxyrhynchite
Obv.
Laureate head of Hadrian, r., drapery on l. shoulder.
Rev. ΟΞΥΡ, L ΙΑ
Bipennis
1.85 gr
14 mm
12hokidoki
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Alexander III AR Drachm Kings of Macedon Alexander III the Great, 336-323 BC
Head of Herakles in lion skin facing right
AΛEΞANΔPOY in right field, Zeus enthroned facing left holding eagle and sceptre; double-head (bipennis) axe beneath throne, circled ΠPYA monogram in left field.
Price 2148; Thompson DM 260; Newell 49.
3.97g
Struck under Demetrios Poliorketes ca. 300-294 BC at Ionia, Miletos Mint.
Some encrustations remain around Zeus
Sold Forum Auction May 2019Jay GT4
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Amazon on HorseThe Amazon Queen Omphale?
AE20, Lydia, Mostene, ca 100 BC
Laureate head of Zeus right
ΛYΔΩN MOΣTHNΩN, Amazon on horseback right, holding bipennis axe over shoulder; EP (or EB) to left, monogram to right
SNG Copenhagen 284, Waddington 5101 (if EB)
Adrienne Mayor, in "The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World," records the following:
"In a legend preserved by Plutarch, when Heracles took [Amazon Queen] Hippolyte's golden belt, he also carried away her battle axe, which he presented to another powerful mythical queen, Omphale of Lydia. . . . Queen Hippolyte's axe, says Plutarch, was handed down from Omphale to the kings of Lydia. That is, until King Candaules (d. 718 BC) disrespected the Amazon's axe and carelessly gave it away. Hippolyte's precious axe ultimately ended up in the Temple of Zeus at Labranda in Caria. The original axe shape was not specified in the tale, but by the time it was placed in Zeus's temple it was described as a solid gold labors, the symmetrical double-headed ritual axe traditionally associated with Zeus and Minoan goddesses. . . . (219-220.)"
As Mayor points out, the actual Scythian women horse warriors, who were the original amazons, did not use such and axe in battle, but rather the single-headed sagaris. But the double-headed axe appears on various ancient coins depicting amazons. The coin is historically accurate, however, in portraying the amazon as a horse-mounted warrior.
Given the Lydian origin of the coin, the obverse of Zeus, and reverse of an amazon with an axe shaped like the one at Zeus's temple, it is reasonable to suggest that she is Omphale.
Blindado
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Anonymous, AE19, ΤΑΡΣΕΩΝAE19
Anonymous Civic Issue
Tarsos, Cilicia
Issued: 164BC - Roman Era
19.0mm 5.50gr 11h
O: NO LEGEND; Veiled and turreted bust of Tyche, right.
R: ΤΑΡΣΕΩΝ; Monument of Sandan; Sandan standing on a horned and winged lion, holding grain ear and bipennis within a triangular structure on an altar with garlanded front.
Exergue: Three control marks: ΡΔΥ ΡΑΤ ΔΙ.
Tarsos, Cilicia
SNG Tahberer -; Mionnet -; Mionnet Supplement -; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Pfalz -; Ziegler -; BMC -; SNG Levante -; SNG Levante Supplement -; SNG Cop -; SNG Cop Supplement -.
Ares Numismatics Web Auction 10, Lot 198.
7/4/20 8/6/20Nicholas Z
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attaleia001Elagabalus
Attaleia, Lydia
Obv: ΑΝΤΩΝƐΙΝΟС, laureate draped and cuirassed bust right.
Rev: ΑΤΤΑΛƐΑΤΩΝ, Apollo-Men on horseback advancing right, holding bipennis over shoulder.
25 mm, 4.19 gms
RPC Online 4295; Kurth, Lydia, 68; SNG Leypold 905
From Gorny & Mosch, Auction 269, lot 913.Charles M
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Cesar Augustus 16 I 27 BC - 19 VIII 14 ADaw. IMP CAESAR AVGVST
Head of Augustus, bare, right
rew. P CARISIVS LEG PRO PR
Helmet with stag horns between dagger and bipennis
RIC I (second edition) Augustus 7A
mint Merida , circa 25 B.C. - 23 B.C. Waldemar S
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Etenna, PisidiaEtenna, Pisidia. AE15. 1st C. BC. Two male figures, naked, chlamys over shoulders, each holding bipennis (double axe) and sickle or crooked knives, running side-by-side / Female figure advancing right, grappling with snake which is rearing up, attacking her. Overturned amphora to left. Von Aulock, Pisidia II, 433; SNG BN Paris 1533. Ajax
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Etenna, Pisidia. AE14, civic issue, 100-1 BC.Obv: Two male figures running side-by-side, one holding a harpa, the other brandishing a bipennis.
Rev: ET-EN, nymph walking right, holding an upright serpent.ancientone
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Gallienus, Smyrna, Tyche, AE23under magistrate M. Aurelius Sextus, ca. 260-268 AD
23mm, 6.80g
obv: laureate and draped bust right
rev: Amazon standing with small temple, bipennis and patera
ex Rauch
areich
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Greek, Pisidia, Etenna100 - 1 BC
AE 17 mm, 3.95 grams, 0 degrees
O: Two male figures running left, side by side, brandishing crooked knives (one description says one holds a bipennis (double axe)).
R: Female advancing right, grappling with snake attacking her; oinochoe on ground behind; ET-EN in field.
Ref: SG 5459
Notes: Reference is to Sear Greek, I am not really comfortable getting much more specific as this coin is quite worn. SG 5459 is a coin smaller than this one, although it appears that coins of this type vary in size/weight. Wildwinds list a number that are all similar, but different sizes and references.
Ex-Jean Elsen Lot (part of), July 2022Virgil H
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Hadrian, AD 117-138AR Tridrachm, 26.02 mm (8.93 gm).
AYT KAI ΘE TPA ΠAP YI ΘE NEP YI TPAI AΔPIANOC CE, Laureate head to right, with traces of cuirass, seen from front / TAPCEΩN MHTPOΠOΛEΩC, Sandan, right arm raised, quiver and sword over shoulder and holding bipennis and wreath, standing on horned lion to right. Tarsus mint.
Prieur, 768; SNG Levante, 996.
Ex A. Lynn collection.
socalcoins
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Histiaia, Euboia196 - 146 B.C.
Silver Tetrobol
2.42 gm, 14.5 mm
Obv.: Head of nymph Histiaia right, wreathed with vine
Rev.: Nymph seated upon a stern of galley, ornamented with wing, holding naval standard,
AΓ monogram and bipennis axe below.
IΣTI - AIEΩN left mirrored
BMC 8 p.130, 60;
Sear 2496-98 v.;
HGC 4, 1524Jaimelai
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Ionia, Smyrna, Tyche / Griffin, AE1919mm, 4.22g
obv: CMYPN-A, draped and turreted bust of the Amazon Smyrna left, bipennis over shoulder
rev: CMYPNA-I-ΩN, Griffin right, left paw placed on wheel
CLICK the picture for a sharper version.areich
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Ionia, Smyrna. AE-20. Amazon Smyrna / Prow IONIA, Smyrna. Autonomous Issue. c. 2nd-3rd Century AD. Æ 20. 4.07 g. Draped and turreted bust of the Amazon Smyrna lt., bipennis over shoulder. / CMYPNA-I-WN, prow rt. Klose 33.2 (V11/R28) = Weber 6155 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen 1266; SNG von Aulock -. Good VF, dark greenish-brown patina.
Fausta
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KINGS OF MACEDON: Phillip IIIKINGS of MACEDON. Philip III Arrhidaios. 323-317 BC. Æ 17mm. Miletos(?) mint. Struck under Asandros, circa 323-319 BC. Macedonian shield with Gorgoneion on central boss / Helmet; bipennis to left, K to right. Price 2064.Molinari
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Lydia, Mostene; Claudius and Agrippina Jr.LYDIA, Mostene. Claudius, with Agrippina Junior. AD 41-54. Æ (21mm, 6.06 g, 12h). Pedanius, magistrate. Jugate draped busts of Claudius, laureate, and Agrippina right / Hero riding horse right, holding bipennis. RPC I 2461; SNG Copenhagen 285. VF, green patina.ecoli
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Lydia, Thyateira, Autonomous issue (after 200 B.C.), BMC 4-7, AE-16, ΘYATEI PHNΩN, Bipennis (double axe),Lydia, Thyateira, Autonomous issue (after 200 B.C.), BMC 4-7, AE-16, ΘYATEI PHNΩN, Bipennis (double axe),
avers:- Laureate head of Apollo right.
revers:- ΘYATEI PH NΩN in two line, Bipennis (double axe).
exe: -/-//--, diameter: 16,3mm, weight: 4,5g, axis: 0h,
mint: Lydia, Thyateira, date: after 200 B.C., ref: BMC 4-7, Walcher 2714, Imhoof LS 7, SNG von Aulock 3199, Weber 6921-6922, Mionnet Supp. VII,573,
Q-001quadrans
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Lydia, Thyateira, Herakles / double axe, AE1717 mm, 3.00 g
obv: bearded head of Herakles right
rev: ΘYAT- EIP / HN-ΩN; double axeareich
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Lydia, Thyateira. AE15, autonomous issue, after 200 BC.Obv: Laureate head of Apollo right.
Rev: ΘYATEIΡHNΩN, bipennis (double axe).ancientone
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Lydia, Thyatira Æ15Lydia, Thyatira
after 200 BC
15mm., 3.42g.
Laureate head of Apollo right (no magistrate's name)
ΘYATEIΡHNΩN, bipennis (double axe)
References: BMC 6-7
AAJNRL
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NERO AE17OBVERSE: NERWN KLAYDIOS KAISAR GER, draped bust right
REVERSE: QYAT-EIRH/NW-N, bipennis (double axe)
Struck at Thyateira, Lydia, 55AD
2.97g, 17mm
RPC 2381; SNG von Aulock 3216; BMC 58; SNG Copenhagen 595;
SNG Munich 612; Weber 6931; Mionnet VII 596; Lindgren I 834Legatus
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Philip III ArrhidaiosKINGS of MACEDON. Philip III Arrhidaios. 323-317 BC. Æ 17mm. Miletos(?) mint. Struck under Asandros, circa 323-319 BC. Macedonian shield with Gorgoneion on central boss / Helmet; bipennis to left, K to right. Price 2064.Molinari
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Phrygia, Hierapolis. pseudo-autonomous issue. 176-225 AD. Obv: BOYΛH, draped, laureate and veiled bust of Boule right.
Rev: IEΡAΠOΛEITΩN, Apollo riding on horseback right, double axe (bipennis) over shoulder.
24mm, 8.45g.
RPC online 9791ancientone
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Phrygia, Trajanopolis, Demos / Hero, AE192nd century AD
19mm, 4.59g
obv: ΔH - MOC; draped bust of Demos right
rev: TPAIANOΠOΛITΩ - N; horseman on horse walking right, bipennis over shoulder
BMC Phrygia p. 426, 10; SNG von Aulock 4034 (different dies)
(von Aulock: Münzen und Städte Phrygiens 1372 (same dies))areich
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Pisidia, Etenna AE14. First Century BC.Obv: Two male figures standing side by side, naked except for mantles over shoulders, one brandishing a bipennis (double axe), the other a crooked knife
Rx: ET-EN, Female figure standing or walking right, looking back, holding out a protective hand against a serpent to the right. Overturned urn below to the left.
Von Aulock, Pisidien II, 425ff, BMC 2Dino
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Provincial, Hierapolis, Phrygia, AE24, IεPAΠOΛεITΩNAE24
AE
Roman Provincial: Hierapolis, Phrygia
Pseudo Autonomous
Anonymous
Issued: 176 - 225AD
24.00mm 7.32gr 7h
O: Γε-POYCIA; Laureate, veiled and draped bust of Gerousia, right; beaded border.
R: IεPA-ΠOΛεIT; Apollo, holding bipennis on horse trotting right; beaded border.
Exergue: ΩN, continuation of reverse legend, below.
Hierapolis, Phrygia Mint
SNG Cop 434; BMC 79; RPC Online 9789; Weber 7111; Lindgren I, 969; SNG Lewis 1619-20.
Aphrodite Art Coins/Constantino Coia Auction 5, Lot 701
8/28/22 9/16/22Nicholas Z
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Provincial, Thyateira, Lydia, AE15, ΘYATεIPHNΩNAE15
AE
Roman Provincial: Thyateira, Lydia
Nero
Caesar: 50 - 54AD
Augustus: 54 - 68AD
Issued: 50 - 54AD
15.00mm 2.30gr 11h
O: NεPΩN KΛAYΔIOC KAICAP ΓεP; Draped bust, right.
R: ΘYAT-εIPH-N-ΩN; Bipennis.
Thyateira, Lydia Mint.
GRPC Lydia 143; SNG von Aulock 3216; BMC 58 - 61; RPC 2381; Sear SGI 593; SNG Cop 595-7.
N&N London Auctions/Stefan Asenov Online Auction Green 42, Lot 337.
12/4/23 1/25/24Nicholas Z
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RPC II 1673A DomitianusObv: AYT KAI ΔOMITIANOC ΣEBACTOC ΓEPM, Laureate head right
Rev: ETO ΙΓ (across field), Bust of Amazon l., with long curls on neck; over shoulder, bipennis
AR/Didrachm (21.55 mm 5.915 g 6h) Struck in Rome (for Cappadocia) 93-94 AD
RPC II 1673A.1 (this coin), Metcalf unpublished
ex Savoca 95th Silver Auction lot 423FlaviusDomitianus
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Syria, Seleukis and Pieria, Gabala, Commodus, Lindgren 1186Commodus, AD 177-192
AE 25, 12.18g
struck 185/6 (year 234)
obv. AYT KAI [MAR(?) - AVR KOMMODON] (from upper left)
Laureate head l.
rev. AN - [NA / DLC (in upper field)] (= year 234 of Caesarean era)
in ex. GABALEWN
Goddess of Gabala, in long garment and wearing kalathos, stg. frontal on piedestal, brandishing
bipennis in raised r. hand and holding shield in l. hand; at both side of base protome of a horse looking
outwards; on the r. side Tyche (city goddess) in long garment and with mural crown std. l. on throne, holding
rudder in l. hand.
ref.: H. Seyrig 'Cultes de Gabala, in RN (1964), p.22-27' cites 2 ex. in ANS and 2 ex. in Paris; Lindgren 1186, RPC IV.3 6970 (temp)
Very rare, VF, sandy brown patina
Pedigree:
ex coll J. Wagner
ex CNG Electronic Auction 201, lot 290
The attribution of the l. figure is difficult. Here are some suggestions:
CNG: deity
ANS: male figure with bipennis and sceptre
HN: Veiled cultus-statue of a Syrian goddess (Astarte or Aphrodite, accompanied by 2 sphinxes)
Imhoof-Blumer: Astarte or Aphrodite
R. Dussaud: Venus
S. Ronzevalle: flanked by 2 lions, Paredros of Jupiter Heliopolitanus (Atargatis)
H. Seyrig: hypothetical Astarte
Because of the horses I tend to Astarte
Jochen
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Syria, Seleukis and Pieria, Gabala, Julia Domna, unpublished?Julias Domna, AD 193-211
AE 24, 8.38g, 23.66mm, 0°
obv. IOVLIA - DOMNA CEB
Bust, draped, on crescent, r.
rev. GABA - LEWN
Cult statue of the goddess of Gabala in long garment, stg. facing on low base, holding in l. arm shield and
in raised r. hand bipennis over her head; at both sides of the base the forepart of a sphinx l., and the
forpart of a lion r.
ref. not in SNG Copenhagen; not in BMC
very rare, F+, red sand patina which we know from Syria
Compare with the coin of Commodus. The attributes of this goddess seem to be interchangeable.Jochen
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Tarsos, Cilicia c. 164-27 B.C.Tarsos, Cilicia, c. 164-27 B.C. Ae 19.1~20.1 mm. 6.70 g. Obv: Veiled and turreted head of Tyche right, within dotted border. Rev: TAΡΣEΩN, Monument of Sandan: Sandan standing right on a horned and winged lion, holding grain ear and bipennis within triangular structure on a garlanded altar. Monogram in left field. SNG Cop 340.ddwau
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thyatira0005aPseudo-autonomous, 193-235, (Time of Elagabalus)
Thyatira, Lydia
Obv: Bearded head of Herakles right.
Rev: ΘVΑΤЄΙ-ΡΗΝΩN, eagle standing fully left, head right, wings closed; an inverted bipennis between its legs.
15 mm, 2.64 gms
Kurth, Lydia, 101; SNG Turkey 10, 845.Charles M
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