This
thread is presented as a series of regional supplements to the
Isegrim Asia Minor database, for which now see the brief User's Guide at
Discussion topic 44094 Please feel free to add any unpublished
types here (or at
Discussion topic 44094 for Nicaea), work-in-progress toward a composite list subdivided as follows:
Pontus Paphlagonia Bithynia A-M
Bithynia Nicaea
Bithynia Nicomedia-Z
Mysia Troas Aeolis Lesbos Ionia Caria Lydia Phrygia Lycia Pamphylia Pisidia Lycaonia Cilicia Galatia CappadociaIsegrim's vast extent can lull one into thinking that it has it all, from the earliest AM coinage to the very latest
Roman provincials, but there are a few gaps in the range, some astonishing *; filling in what we can makes the database
still more invaluable. Thus a roster like this one of online addenda to
Isegrim has definite uses even if (or because!) it is frankly much less than exhaustive; there are many important resources, for example the short published supplements to
RPC vols. I and II, which get short shrift or none, both in
Isegrim and in these addenda. On the positive
side, this checked regional listing of
Asia Minor coin-types now online but omitted from
Isegrim aspires to be largely
complete as of this month (11/08), with occasional substantive updates, for coins noted as "unpublished," "unediert," "unikum," "äußerst
selten," or "unpubliziert," whether right here at
Forum, in
CoinArchives † or
acsearch.info, or additionally on CNG's website (more or less
complete records of sales since approx. 2001), though my entries have not reckoned with all the intricacies of legend-, year-, and magistrate-variants, Eastern kingdoms, incerti, or very early AR and EL. (Where a coin-posting offers the first online picture of this or that
Isegrim entry [FO] I will link to that posting as well.) The roll-call of false "unpublished" entries encountered assembling these listings is equally long and annoying ?‡, but I will not dwell on the lapses of sellers and listers who could, and should, do their own Isegrim-checks but did not; where they got it right, I clearly owe them, and so does this posting.
Three additional points on the use of these links: since most online resources are shifting and volatile things, it works best to download all linked type-entries sooner not later as your interests prompt and as time and resources permit. Regional and conventus distinctions are often confusing, and multiple cities across
Asia Minor will frequently share the same name; the
Historia Numorum's geographical
index helps
head off some confusions at any rate, link:
Historia Numorum's geographical index. For simplicity and clarity's sake, all the proper names used here are assigned the same spelling as in
Isegrim, with the notable exception of Serapis, Sarapis in
Isegrim.
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* See the rationales for my plan to fill gaps of some sorts, but not all (e.g., die-variant gaps), at
Discussion topic 50068One "lost" issue that I own from
Aegae,
Aeolis, illustrates the vast reach of the
Isegrim database -- it includes most "unpublished" according to auction-descriptions -- as well as its very
rare failings:
Discussion topic 39393Isegrim includes many entries from Imhoof-Blumer's
Monnaies Grecques (
Isegrim ZIT:
IMHOOF MG.*) and many entries for
Aegae or
Aigai,
Aeolis, but it doesn't include the one
Aegae entry from MG that I really needed, a remarkable coin picturing Isis on its
obverse and Harpokrates its
reverse. That omission's particularly frustrating and baffling since
Isegrim does include the previous MG entry, 270, 209, for a different
Aegae bronze with Harpokrates on the
reverse; the next entry in MG simply slipped under Isegrim's radar, probably due to routine human error, a factor always well worth remembering. (See two other "lost" issues at
Discussion topic=67656.) There was no quick corrective for this little glitch, even though we do have
Google Books'
Monnaies Grecques, and can now text-search
Aegae and Isis:
Imhoof-Blumer Monnaies Grecques Online †
Note added 03/16/2009 -- The free
CoinArchives site is now
miserably limited-access, with sad consequences for many of my links below (though a number can now be re-searched via
http://acsearch.info); I have archived the pages for most if not all of those coins and can
post them at need for comparison.
‡ A relatively innocuous instance:
Julia Domna /
Helios with torch l., from
Hypaepa,
Lydia, misidentified and tagged as "Unpublished?" at
CNG Although some type-ID's are contested, an
Isegrim entry will often
still serve to pin down a coin-type that is wrongly described as unpublished; thus 1) an "unpublished"
Herakles / Basket with corn-ears and poppies turns out to be really the twin of 2) a coin
Isegrim designates as
Asklepios / Basket:
1)
Asia Minor Coins 2)
SNG UK [
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