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Home ▸ Catalog ▸ |Greek Coins| ▸ |Geographic - All Periods| ▸ |Syria| ▸ |Other Syria||View Options:   | | | |
The following list was provided by the consignor and has not been verified by FORVM:
1) Augustus, AE24 As (11.2g), Cypriot mint, 27-23 B.C., CAISAR (sic), bare head right / AVGVSTVS in two lines in laurel wreath, RIC I 485, RPC I 2231.
2) Augustus, AE20, Berytus, Phoenicia, RPC I 4540.
3) Tiberius, AE26, RPC I 4270.
4) Nero, AE26, Antioch, RPC I 4307, countermark, RPC I lists two specimens with different countermarks.
5) Domitian. AE as, Seleucis and Pieria, Antioch, laureate head left / large S C within laurel wreath, McAlee 409(b).
6) Trajan, AE18, Cyrrhestica, Beroea, legend in wreath, RPC I 3431.
7) Askalon, Judaea, AE16, Year 26 = 116/7 AD, veiled bust of Tyche right / galley right.
8) Marcus Aurelius & Lucius Verus, AE20, Aradus, Phoenicia, humped bull charging right. BMC 379.
9) Phoenicia, Tyre, Elagabalus, Æ29, IMP CAES M AV ANTONINVS AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, oval countermark of Melqart right / SEPTIM TVRO / COLO Astarte standing left, holding scepter and crowning trophy to left, palm tree to inner left, murex shell to inner right, to outer right, column surmounted by crowning Nike left, cf. BMC Tyre 390; c/m: Howgego 15, Ex Richard Baker collection.
10) Elagabalus, AE16 (3.87g), Wreath around SC.
11) Elagabalus, AE19, Antioch, radiate head right / SC in wreath, ram right, head turned back, McAlee 791a.
12) Elagabalus, AE20, radiate head right / SC and eagle in wreath, aVF.
13) Philip I, AE32, Antioch, Syria, Tyche.
LT110949. Bronze Lot, 13 Roman provincial Syria bronze coins, 14.6mm - 28.8mm, mostly F, c. 30 B.C. - 250 A.D.; no tags or flips, the actual coins in the photograph, as-is, no returns, 13 coins; $300.00 (€282.00)
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Berenike II, 244 - 221 B.C., Wife of Ptolemy III
This type has traditionally been attributed to Ake Ptolemais, Galilee (Acre, Israel). R. Poole attributed them to Cyprus and they have been found there, but C. Lorber notes they were found in numbers in the Ras Ibn Hani Excavations, on the North Syrian coast. This site had easy access to Cyrus. She also finds Seleukid influence in the skilled epigraphy and reverse legend arrangement. She thus attributes the type to an uncertain North Syrian mint.GP112041. Bronze tritartemorion, Svoronos 1055, pl. 31, 23 (this leg. arrangement); Weiser 84 (same); Lorber CPE B460; SNG Cop 460 var. (leg. arrangement); Noeske -, aF, irregular flan, weight 6.368 g, maximum diameter 20.3 mm, die axis 0o, uncertain North Syrian mint, 244 - 221 B.C.; obverse BEPENIKHΣ downward on left, BAΣIΛIΣΣHΣ (clockwise), diademed and draped bust of Queen Berenike II right; reverse ΠTOΛEMAIOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ (clockwise), eagle standing left on thunderbolt, wings closed, head left; $110.00 (€103.40)
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Berenike II, 244 - 221 B.C., Wife of Ptolemy III
This type has traditionally been attributed to Ake Ptolemais, Galilee (Acre, Israel). R. Poole attributed them to Cyprus and they have been found there, but C. Lorber notes they were found in numbers in the Ras Ibn Hani Excavations, on the North Syrian coast. This site had easy access to Cyrus. She also finds Seleukid influence in the skilled epigraphy and reverse legend arrangement. She thus attributes the type to an uncertain North Syrian mint.GP113395. Bronze tritartemorion, Svoronos 1055, pl. 31, 23 (this leg. arrangement); Weiser 84 (same); Lorber CPE B460; SNG Cop 460 var. (leg. arrangement); Noeske -, VF, glossy dark brown patina, reddish earthen deposits, tight flan cutting off much of legends, sprue remnants, weight 8.329 g, maximum diameter 21.4 mm, die axis 0o, uncertain North Syrian mint, 244 - 221 B.C.; obverse BEPENIKHΣ downward on left, BAΣIΛIΣΣHΣ (clockwise), diademed and draped bust of Queen Berenike II right; reverse ΠTOΛEMAIOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ (clockwise), eagle standing left on thunderbolt, wings closed, head left; $110.00 (€103.40)
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Berenike II, 244 - 221 B.C., Wife of Ptolemy III
This type has traditionally been attributed to Ake Ptolemais, Galilee (Acre, Israel). R. Poole attributed them to Cyprus and they have been found there, but C. Lorber notes they were found in numbers in the Ras Ibn Hani Excavations, on the North Syrian coast. This site had easy access to Cyrus. She also finds Seleukid influence in the skilled epigraphy and reverse legend arrangement. She thus attributes the type to an uncertain North Syrian mint.GP114718. Bronze tritartemorion, Lorber CPE B460; Svoronos 1055; SNG Cop 460; Weiser 84; Noeske -, aVF, porous/rough, legends weak, light earthen deposits, obv. edge beveled, weight 6.387 g, maximum diameter 21.0 mm, die axis 0o, uncertain North Syrian mint, 244 - 221 B.C.; obverse BEPENIKHΣ downward on left, BAΣIΛIΣΣHΣ (clockwise), diademed and draped bust of Queen Berenike II right; reverse ΠTOΛEMAIOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ (clockwise), eagle standing left on thunderbolt, wings closed, head left; $100.00 (€94.00)
Seleukid Kingdom, Antiochus VII Euergetes Sidetes, 138 - 129 B.C.
David Hendin identifies the mint city as Jerusalem. Some numismatists have attributed this type to Askalon. Houghton and Lorber attribute it to an uncertain mint in southern Koile-Syria.GY111516. Bronze AE 12, Houghton-Lorber II 2122, SNG Spaer 2095, Houghton CSE 819, Hendin 6166 (Jerusalem mint), HGC 9 1111, VF, green patina, highlighting earthen deposits, rev. off center, weight 1.108 g, maximum diameter 11.8 mm, die axis 45o, southern Koile-Syria (?, uncertain) mint, 138 - 137 B.C.; obverse crested Boeotian helmet with cheek guards; reverse ANTIOXOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ, aphlaston; this is the first specimen of this type handled by FORVM, ex Zuzim Inc. (Isadore Goldstein, Brooklyn, NY); $90.00 (€84.60)
Antoninus Pius, August 138 - 7 March 161 A.D., 138 - 161 A.D., Zeugma, Commagene, Syria
Zeugma was founded by Seleucus I Nicator who almost certainly named the city Seleucia after himself. In 64 B.C. the city was conquered by Rome and renamed Zeugma, meaning "bridge of boats." On the Silk Road connecting Antioch to China, Zeugma had a pontoon bridge across the Euphrates, which was the long time border with the Persian Empire. The Legio IV Scythica was camped in Zeugma. The legion and the trade station brought great wealth to Zeugma until, in 256, Zeugma was fully destroyed by the Sassanid king, Shapur I. An earthquake then buried the city beneath rubble. The city never regained its earlier prosperity and, after Arab raids in the 5th and 6th centuries, it was abandoned again.RP111648. Bronze AE 22, cf. SNG Hunter II 2633; RPC Online IV.3 T10693; BMC Galatia p. 124, 1, VF, dark patina, tight flan, some legend unstruck/off flan, weight 9.144 g, maximum diameter 21.5 mm, die axis 0o, Zeugma (Belkis, Turkey) mint, obverse AYTO KAI TI ANT AΔPIA ANTWNINOC CEB EYC (or similar, obscure), laureate head of Antoninus Pius right; reverse ZEVΓMATEWN (or similar), temple with four columns; on far side of a wall of two stories and a colonnaded peribolos containing grove, A in right field, all in laurel wreath; $60.00 (€56.40)
Lucius Verus, 7 March 161 - February 169 A.D., Samosata, Commagene, Syria
Samosata was an ancient city on the right (west) bank of the Euphrates. Its ruins existed at the modern city of Samsat, Adiyaman Province, Turkey until the site was flooded by the Atatürk Dam. The unusual depiction of two Tyches suggests a link between Samosata and another city. The closest metropolis was Edessa in Mesopotamia, 20 miles to the east.RP114948. Bronze AE 23, RPC Online IV.3 T3590 (5 spec.), F, green patina, earthen deposits, scratches, legends weak, edge crack, weight 4.893 g, maximum diameter 23.0 mm, die axis 0o, Samosata (site now flooded by the Atatürk Dam) mint, 162 - 163 A.D.; obverse AYT K Λ AYPH OYHPOC CEB, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind; reverse Φ CAM IEP ACY AYT - MHT KOM (from upper right), turreted Tyche seated on rock, left, poppy and two ears of grain in right hand, resting foot on swimming river-god (Euphrates), ET ϟ (year 90) in left field; very rare; $60.00 (€56.40)
Ptolemaic Ammanitis, Tobiads, Hyrkanos of Jerusalem, c. 200 - 169 B.C., Imitative of Ptolemy II
| This coin is believed to have been struck at Tyros, Ammanitis (today the Qasr al-Abd palace, near Amman, Jordan). This was the palace of the powerful Jewish Tobiad family. It was struck under Hyrcanus of Jerusalem, the Ptolemaic governor of Ammanitis, c. 200 - 169 B.C. This coin is imitative of a tetradrachm type struck for Ptolemy II at Ptolemais-Ake mint, 254/3 B.C. The type was part of a large imitative issue that copied types struck by Ptolemy I through Ptolemy V. The coins have long been recognized as imitative due to their barbarous style and blunders. In addition to style differences, the prototype for this coin has a reverse legend ΠTOΛEMAIOY ΣΩTHPOΣ and is dated ΛB (year 32), blundered to AB on this coin. Production of these imitatives was long assumed to be contemporaneous with their prototypes. In 2013, however, a hoard was found and the earliest coin types were as fresh as those of Ptolemy IV and V. It was also noted that imitatives of early Ptolemy I tetradrachms originally struck at a 25 obols standard did not replicate the heavy weight of their prototypes. The imitative mint at Tyros probably struck from the Fifth Syrian War, 202-195 B.C. to 169 B.C. Aumaître and Lorber identify this type as likely the last from the mint and assign a probable date of 169 B.C. when the Seleukid king Antiochus IV seized the Tobiad family properties and Hyrkanos committed suicide. |  |
Seleukeia Pieria, Seleukis and Pieria, Syria, 99 - 98 B.C.
Seleucia Pieria, also known in English as Seleucia by the Sea, was the capital of Seleucus I Nicator, in Syria Prima. The city was built, slightly to the north of the estuary of the river Orontes, between small rivers on the western slopes of the Coryphaeus, one of the southern summits of the Amanus Mountains. The Macedonians called the landscape Pieria, after a district in their homeland that was also between the sea and the Olympus mountains.SH79675. Silver tetradrachm, Callatay Production p. 74; HGC 9 1382; Cohen DCA 697; BMC Galatia p. 271, 18 var. (rev. Γ vice Θ); SNG Cop -, EF, very light rose toning, tight flan, obverse die wear, light marks, weight 14.971 g, maximum diameter 28.5 mm, die axis 0o, Seleukeia Pieria mint, 99 - 98 B.C.; obverse turreted and veiled head of Tyche right, wearing earring, bead and reel border; reverse ΣEΛEYKEIAΣ / THΣ IEPAΣ / KAI / AYTONOMOY, fulmen (thunderbolt), taenia (ribbon) and cushions on the pulvinar (symbolic empty throne) of Zeus, AI (year 11) between the legs Θ lower inner right; all within a laurel wreath; ex Hess Divo auction 327 (22 Oct 2014), lot 65; ex Freeman & Sear stock list 8 (2003), lot 197; rare; SOLD
Laodikeia, Syria, Autonomous Issue, 52 - 51 B.C.
RP17303. Silver tetradrachm, Mørkholm Laodicea 18a; BMC Galatia p. 246, 4 - 7 var. (control letters), VF, weight 14.743 g, maximum diameter 26.9 mm, die axis 0o, Laodicea ad Mare (Latakia, Syria) mint, Year 30, 52 - 51 B.C.; obverse veiled and turreted bust of Tyche right, bead and reel border; reverse ΛAOΔIKEΩN / THΣ IEPAΣ KA/IΣ / AYTONOMOY, Zeus seated left, Nike presenting wreath in right hand, scepter in left, Λ IΣ left,
(ΠA monogram) under throne, KA in exergue, all in laurel wreath; SOLDCLICK HERE TO SEE MORE FROM THIS CATEGORY - FORVM's PRIOR SALES
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