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1943 IONIA, Phocaea Sabina, ProwReference.
RPC III, 1943/6; BMC 136; Paris 2014
Obv. ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗ ϹΑΒΕΙΝΑ
Draped bust of Sabina, right
Rev. ΦΩΚΑΕΩΝ
Prow, r.; above, caps of the Dioscuri surmounted by stars
3.24 gr
20 mm
6hokidoki
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Aeolis, Temnos. Pseudo-autonomous Ae25. Senate/NemesesObv: IERACY NKLHTOC; Bust of youthful Senate r.
Rev: THM NE ITWN; Two Nemeses standing facing each other, drawing fold of drapery from breasts.
200-250 AD.
25mm, 6.5g.
SNG COP 21 266(1)
Temnos was a little town of Aeolia, near the Hermus River, which is shown on its coins. Situated at elevation it commanded the territories of Cyme, Phocaea, and Smyrna. Under Augustus it was already on the decline; under Tiberius it was destroyed by an earthquake; and in the time of Pliny it was no longer inhabited. It was however rebuilt.ancientone
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Female head left/ Head and neck of griffin leftPhocaea, Ionia ca. 350 - 300 B.C. AE 12; Female head l./ Head and neck of griffin l. BMC 216, 9. Ex Gerhard RohdePodiceps
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GREEK, Lesbos, Electrum Hekte, c.412 - 378 B.C.Bodenstedt, in his detailed study of the Phocaean and Lesbian elctrum, dates this type with the uncertain identity with long flowing hair to the first decade of the 4th century B.C. Mytilene was the chief city of Lesbos and was located in the southeast of the island opposite the mainland.
Electrum hekte, Bodenstedt 70 (obv. f/rev. h?) and plate 55; Boston 1707 and pl. 82 (different dies) BMC 104 (same obv die), cf. S 4243-53, gVF/VF, 2.521g, 10.6mm, 225o, Mytilene mint, c. 412 - 378 B.C.; obverse laureate head of Apollo right; reverse female head right with long flowing hair, wearing necklace, within linear square in incuse square.
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Greek, Western Anatolia, c. 620 - 600 B.C., Plain Globular Type Electrum HekteSH85577. Electrum hekte, Phokaic standard 1/6 stater; unpublished, EF, flan cracks, uncertain western Anatolia mint, weight 2.721g, maximum diameter 8.96mm, c. 620 - 600 B.C.; obverse plain globular surface; reverse one small incuse square punch; extremely rare
Unpublished! The majority of the earliest electrum issues were struck on the lighter Milesian weight standard, with hectes weighing approximately 2.35 grams. This example, however is on the heavier Phocaic standard that was used at mints such as Cyzicus, Mysia and Phocaea, Ionia.Joe Sermarini
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Head of Hermes l./ Kerykeion in the form of ΦΩ monogram; AE 10Phokaia, Ionia, ca 250-200 B.C. AE. 10mm. Head of Hermes left, wearing petasos / Kerykeion (caduceus) in the form of ΦΩ monogram (city ethnic). SNG München 830. Podiceps
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Head of Hermes l./ Kerykeion in the form of ΦΩ monogram; AE 11Phokaia, Ionia, ca 250-200 B.C. AE. 11mm. Head of Hermes left, wearing petasos / Kerykeion (caduceus) in the form of ΦΩ monogram (city ethnic). SNG München 830. Podiceps
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Ionia, Phocaea, late 6th century BCAR twelfth-stater (Phocaic standard), 9mm, 1.33g, nice VF
Female head left, wearing pearl necklace and close-fitting ornamented cap / quadripartite incuse square. Rare.
Ex: Forvm Ancient Coins
Unpublished; Cf Rosen 596-7 for smaller silver tritartemoria of similar type
Certificate of Authenticy by David R. Sear, ACCSLawrence W
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Ionia, Phocaea. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Between -30 and 276 AD . AE 14mm.Ionia, Phocaea. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Between -30 and 276 AD.
Obv. ΦΩΚΕΑ, Turreted and draped bust of Tyche right
Rev. Griffin standing right, left forepaw on wheel Lee S
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Ionia, Phocaea?, hemiobol?7mm, 0.52g
obv: head of griffin to left
rev: rough incuse square
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Ionia, PhokaiaMetal/Size: AE20; Weight: 8.94 grams; Denomination: Drachm; Mint:, Phokaia, Ionia; Date: 300-200 BCE; Obverse: Draped bust of Hermes right, wearing petasos. Reverse: Forepart of a griffin right; Magistrate Aristoleos (ΦΩ AΡIΣTOΛEOΣ). References: SNG Cop. #1037; SNG Tubingen #3127; SNG Lewis #943.museumguy
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IONIA, Phokaia - EL Hemihekte (1/12 stater)IONIA. Phocaea
ca. 625-600 BC
EL 1/12 stater or hemihecte; 7mm, 1.16 gm
Obverse: Head and neck of griffin left, mouth open; seal upward behind
Reverse: Incuse square with rough interior geometric surfaces
Linzalone 1170 (hecte). cf. SNG von Aulock 7789
(photo courtesy of Heritage Auctions, Inc.)cmcdon0923
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IONIA, Phokaia.The ancient Greek geographer Pausanias says that Phocaea was founded by Phocians under Athenian leadership, on land given to them by the Aeolian Cymaeans, and that they were admitted into the Ionian League after accepting as kings the line of Codrus. Pottery remains indicate Aeolian presence as late as the 9th century BC, and Ionian presence as early as the end of the 9th century BC. From this an approximate date of settlement for Phocaea can be inferred.
According to Herodotus the Phocaeans were the first Greeks to make long sea-voyages, having discovered the coasts of the Adriatic, Tyrrhenia and Spain. Herodotus relates that they so impressed Arganthonios, king of Tartessus in Spain, that he invited them to settle there, and, when they declined, gave them a great sum of money to build a wall around their city.
Their sea travel was extensive. To the south they probably conducted trade with the Greek colony of Naucratis in Egypt, which was the colony of their fellow Ionian city Miletus. To the north, they probably helped settle Amisos (Samsun) on the Black Sea, and Lampsacus at the north end of the Hellespont (now the Dardanelles). However Phocaea's major colonies were to the west. These included Alalia in Corsica, Emporiae and Rhoda in Spain, and especially Massalia (Marseille) in France.
Phocaea remained independent until the reign of the Lydian king Croesus (circa 560–545 BC), when they, along with the rest of mainland Ionia, first, fell under Lydian control[8] and then, along with Lydia (who had allied itself with Sparta) were conquered by Cyrus the Great of Persia in 546 BC, in one of the opening skirmishes of the great Greco-Persian conflict.
Rather than submit to Persian rule, the Phocaeans abandoned their city. Some may have fled to Chios, others to their colonies on Corsica and elsewhere in the Mediterranean, with some eventually returning to Phocaea. Many however became the founders of Elea, around 540 BC.
In 500 BC, Phocaea joined the Ionian Revolt against Persia. Indicative of its naval prowess, Dionysius, a Phocaean was chosen to command the Ionian fleet at the decisive Battle of Lade, in 494 BC. However, indicative of its declining fortunes, Phocaea was only able to contribute three ships, out of a total of "three hundred and fifty three". The Ionian fleet was defeated and the revolt ended shortly thereafter.
After the defeat of Xerxes I by the Greeks in 480 BC and the subsequent rise of Athenian power, Phocaea joined the Delian League, paying tribute to Athens of two talents. In 412 BC, during the Peloponnesian War, with the help of Sparta, Phocaea rebelled along with the rest of Ionia. The Peace of Antalcidas, which ended the Corinthian War, returned nominal control to Persia in 387 BC.
In 343 BC, the Phocaeans unsuccessfully laid siege to Kydonia on the island of Crete.
During the Hellenistic period it fell under Seleucid, then Attalid rule. In the Roman period, the town was a manufacturing center for ceramic vessels, including the late Roman Phocaean red slip.
It was later under the control of Benedetto Zaccaria, the Genoan ambassador to Byzantium, who received the town as a hereditary lordship; Zaccaria and his descendants amassed a considerable fortune from his properties there, especially the rich alum mines. It remained a Genoese colony until it was taken by the Turks in 1455. It is a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.
IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 521-478 BC. AR Hemidrachm (9mm, 1.54 g). Head of griffin left / Quadripartite incuse square. SNG Copenhagen –; SNG von Aulock 2116; SNG Kayhan 512-6. VF, dark toning. ecoli
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Lampsakos, Mysia, c. 4th - 3rd Centuries B.C.Silver diobol, Baldwin Lampsakos, Group B, Type I, pl. VI, 6; SNG Ashmolean 660; SNG BnF 1195; SNG Cop 191; SNGvA 1295; BMC Mysia p. 83, 36 ff., VF, well centered on a tight flan, toned, 1.458g, 11.7mm, 315o, Lampsakos (Lapseki, Turkey) mint, c. 4th - 3rd Centuries B.C.; obverse Janiform female head, wearing taenia and disk earring; reverse LA-M-Y (clockwise, starting above), helmeted head of Athena right, in a shallow round incuse.
A very valuable example from FORVM. The Sam Mansourati Collection.
Lampsakos was founded by Greek colonists from Phocaea in the 6th century B.C. Soon afterward it became a main competitor of Miletus, controlling the trade roots in the Dardanelles. During the 6th and 5th centuries B.C., Lampsacus was successively dominated by Lydia, Persia, Athens, and Sparta; Artaxerxes I assigned it to Themistocles with the expectation that the city supply the Persian king with its famous wine. When Lampsacus joined the Delian League after the battle of Mycale in 479 B.C., it paid a tribute of twelve talents, a testimony to its wealth.Sam
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Lucania, Velia (Circa 440-400 BC)AR Didrachm
20 mm, 7.68 g
Obverse: Head of Athena l., wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with griffin and laurel wreath; Φ to r.
Reverse: Lion attacking stag; [Y]EL-HT-EW-N
Williams 159; HNItaly 1270; SNG ANS 1261. VF
The type of lion and its prey goes back to the earliest Velian drachms brought by its original Phocaean settlers from Asia Minor; in various forms the type is common in the East Greek and Persian world and may have originally represented the triumph of light over darkness or of the king over his enemies.Nathan P
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Lucania, Velia. (Circa 340-334 B.C.)AR nomos (22 mm, 7.24 g, 2 h).
Obverse: Head of Athena left, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with a griffin; between neck guard and crest, Θ
Reverse: YEΛHTΩN (of Elea), lion prowling right; below, X.
Williams 262 (O151/R207); SNG ANS 1293 (same dies); HN Italy 1284.
Velia was the Roman name of an ancient city of Magna Graecia on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. It was founded by Greeks from Phocaea as Hyele around 538–535 BC. According to Herodotus, in 545 BC Ionian Greeks fled Phocaea, in modern Turkey, which was being besieged by the Persians under Cyrus the Great. They settled in Corsica until they were attacked by a force of Etruscans and Carthaginians. The surviving 6000 took to the sea once more, first stopping in Reggio Calabria, where they were probably joined by the poet/philosopher Xenophanes, who was at the time at Messina, and then moved north along the coast and founded the town of Hyele, later renamed Ele and then, eventually, Elea.
Elea was not conquered by the Lucanians, but eventually joined Rome in 273 BC and was included in ancient Lucania.Nathan P
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Phokaia, Ionia, c. 530 - 510 B.C.Silver hemiobol, BMC Ionia p. 215, 82, aVF, 1.037g, 8.5mm, 3.17mm thick, Phokaia mint, 530 - 510 B.C.; Obv. head of griffin left,(seal on right at edge of flan?) Rev. rough quadripartite incuse square. Among the earliest silver coins minted!
Die match; http://www.asiaminorcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=135&pid=7204#top_display_media
Ex Forvm Ancient Coins
Photo by Forvm Ancient Coins
Background Information:
Phokaia (Phocaea) (modern day Foca, Turkey), northern most of the Ionian cities, located on the western coast of Anatolia (asia minor), at the mouth of the river Hermus (now Gediz), and between the Gulf of Smyrna (now Izmir) to the south and the Gulf of Cyme to the north. Phokaia had a thriving seafaring economy and a powerful naval fleet. It was one of the largest cities of the ancient world. Herodotus described the walls of the city as having a diameter of 5 kilometers. Probably following the Lydians, the Phocaeans were among the earliest in the world to make and use coins as money. Source of background info, WikipediaSteve E
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Provincial, Phocaea, Ionia, AE30, εΠΙ CΤΡ ΜΑΥΡ εΥΤΧΟΥAE30
Roman Provincial: Phocaea, Ionia
Julia Domna
Born: ca. 170AD - Died: 217AD
Augusta: 193 - 217AD
Magistrate: M. Aur. Eutuchos
Issued:
O: IOΥ ΔΟΜΝΑ CεΒACTH; Draped bust, right.
R: εΠΙ CΤΡ ΜΑΥΡ εΥΤΧΟΥ
Exergue: ΦΩΚΑΙ, below line.
Phocaea, Ionia Mint
With original tag.
SNG Lewis 1437; SNG von Aulock 2145 var. (CTR M?); BMC 146 var. (ΦΩΚΑE [sic] and two lions at feet).
About VF
Savoca Auctions Munich/Claudia Savoca 20th Blue Auction, Lot 943
5/18/19 7/6/19Nicholas Z
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Velia, Lucania350-310 BC (Period VI: Kleudoros Group)
AR Didrachm (21mm, 7.50g)
O: Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet ornamented with griffin, swan's head at front of visor.
R: Lion prowling left; Φ above, >E monogram (Kleudoros) below, YEΛHTΩN in ex, all within linear circle.
Williams 297; SNG ANS 1312; SNG Ashmolean 1233; HGC I, 1311; HN Italy 1289; Sear 460v
ex Jack H. Beymer
In 545 BC the Persian King Cyrus the Great conquered the Ionian colony of Phocaea in Asia Minor. The survivors fled by sea, and after a settlement on Corsica was destroyed by the Carthaginians the Phocaean refugees finally reached the south-west coast of Lucania between 538 and 535 BC, where they founded Velia on a promontory between two rivers.
Its’ natural harbor and fortunate situation on the road between Rome and Rhegion made Velia a prime center of commerce, and it soon became known throughout the Mediterranean as a profitable destination and a safe shelter from the harsh winds of the Tyrrhenian Sea. This allowed the colony to thrive, and by the middle of the 5th century BC the Eleatic school of philosophy took form here under Xenophanes and Parmenides, the latter also writing the city's constitution.
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