02. Greek Coinage by City
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Syria, Antioch S. 5856, Ae 27
Obv: Laur. bearded head of Zeus r
Rev: Zeus enthroned l, ANTIOXE N/ TH MHTPO behind, O E KAI/ AYTONOMOY before
From Ebay ecoli
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Syria, ApameiaApamea is located on the right bank of the Orontes river about 55 km to the north west of Hama. It overlooks the Ghab valley and was built by Seleucus Nicator, the first king of the Seleucids in Syria in 300 BC. He named it after his parisian wife, Afamea.
The city flourished to an extent that its population numbered half a million. As an Eastern crossroads, it received many distinguished visitors: Cleopetra, Septimus Severus and the Emperor Caracalla. In the Christian era, Apamea became a center of philosophy and thought, especially of Monophostism.
Most of the uncovered ruins in it date back to the Roman and Byzantine ages. It is distinguished for its high walls and the main thoroughfare surrounded by columns with twisted fluting. The street is 1850 meters long and 87 meters wide. The ruins of the Roman theater which have been frequently disturbed, are now a great mass of stone.
Its colonnade (The Cardo Maximus) is 145 meters long. Erected in the 2nd century, it was destroyed in the 12th century by two violent earthquakes; some columns are still standing nevertheless.
To the west of the city, stands the Mudiq citadel, which once formed a defense line along the Orontes.
Fierce battles with Crusaders attempting to conquer it took place in the 12th century, and Nour Eddin finally surrendered it in 1149.
The citadel has huge towers, overlooking the Ghab valley. It also has a Khan (Inn) built by Ottomans in the 16th century which was transformed into an archaeological museum housing Apamea's wonderful mosaics, paintings, and 15,000 cuneiform clay tablets.
Apameia, Syria: Athena / Nike
2nd c. BC. 22mm. Helmeted bust of Athena right / Nike walking left, As SG 5868 but variant legend. aVF. Ex-Sayles ecoli
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Tauric Chersonesus, PanticapaeumTauric Chersonesus, Panticapaeum, 4th cent. BC, 1.98g. SNG BM-474, SNG Cop-50. Obv: Beardless head of Pan r. Rx: Bow in case, inscription PAN above, TI below. . ecoli
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Thasos, ThraceISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 480-463 BC. AR Stater. Satyr advancing right, carrying off protesting nymph / Quadripartite incuse square. Le Rider, Thasiennes 5; SNG Copenhagen 1010-1; HGC 6, 334.ecoli
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THESSALIA, LARISSATHESSALIA, LARISSA, Bronze 400-344 BC
Bronze 400-344 BC. Head of nymph Larissa right / Horse grazing right. SNG Cop.142
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Thessalonika, MacedoniaMacedonia, Thessalonika c. 168 BC and later
Dionysos with wreath of ivy / Goat standing right A / O / N IKH (or similar)
BMC 10 ff. G48
new picecoli
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Thessalonika, MacedoniaCheckecoli
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Thessaly, Larissa.Thessaly, Larissa. 365-356 B.C. AR drachm (19.03 mm, 5.69 g, 2 h). Rider wearing Kausia on fast horse galloping right / ΛAPIΣAIΩN, bull charging right. BCD 186; BMC 54; Herr. pl. 4, 17; SNG Copenhagen 118; Lorber 101. Fine, some prosity. Very Rare.
Ex John Haer Collection; Ex Triton XV; Ex BCD Collection.ecoli
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Thessaly, MagnesiaThessaly, Magnesia. Circa 400-344 BC.
Thessalian horseman right /
Bull butting leftecoli
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THESSALY, PharsalosTHESSALY, Pharsalos. Circa 400-344 BC. AR Drachm (20mm, 5.53 gm). Helmeted head of Athena right / Warrior on horseback right, holding mace over shoulder. SNG Copenhagen 220-1; BMC Thessaly pg. 43, 6. Fine. Ex-Cng B5AV6Eecoli
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THESSALY, PharsalosTHESSALY, Pharsalos. Mid 5th century BC. AR Obol (9mm, 0.86 g, 12h). Helmeted head of Athena right / Φ AP downward from upper right, head of horse right; all within incuse square with rounded corners. Lavva 4 (V3/R3); BCD Thessaly II 627 (same dies). VF, toned.
From the BCD Collection.
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Thessaly, PharsalosTHESSALY, Pharsalos. Late 5th-mid 4th century BC. Æ Chalkous. Helmeted head of Athena left, Skylla on bowl / Φ-Α-P-Σ (partially retrograde), Thessalian cavalryman on horse rearing right. Lavva –; Rogers –; BCD Thessaly II 667.4; HGC 4, 660.ecoli
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Thessaly, Thessalian THESSALY - THESSALIAN LEAGUE - AE - HEAD OF APOLLO - ATHENA HURLING SPEAR - MAGISTRATE: HIPPOLOCHOS
Obv.: Laureate head of Apollo right
Rev.: QECCA /LWN /IPP-OLO; Athena standing right, holding shield, hurling spear
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Thessaly, Thessalian leagueKoinon of Thessaly. AE17 mm, dichalkon. 172-171 BC. Magistrate Hippaitas. IΠΠAI-TAΣ above and beneath helmeted head of Athena right / ΘEΣ-ΣAΛΩN above and beneath horse trotting right. Rogers 44; BCD Thessaly 840.ecoli
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Thrace MesembriaThrace Mesembria
SNG Copenhagen 658
Date: 250-200 BC
Obverse: Helmet with cheek guard right
Reverse: METAM-BPIANΩN, Wheel with four spokes and hub, seen from angleecoli
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Thrace Mesembria SNG BMC 277
Date: 4th-3rd Century BC
Obverse: Helmeted head of Athena right
Reverse: Shield with Greek letters M-E-T-Aecoli
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Thrace MesembriaThrace Mesembria Æ21 / Helmet / Wheel
SNG Copenhagen 658
Date: 250-200 BC
Obverse: Helmet with cheek guard right
Reverse: METAM-BPIANΩN, Wheel with four spokes and hub, seen from angleecoli
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Thrace, Apollonia PonticaApollonia Pontica was founded by Miletos towards the end of the seventh century. Strabo says the greater part of the city occupied an offshore island, which must have been the present Sveti Kyrikos, but it extended over the Sozopol peninusla and Greeks also settled on the Atiya peninsula, a few kilometres to the north. The site was evidently chosen for its two excellent harbours - the city's emblem on coins was an anchor and a prawn - rather than trade. Its immediate hinterland was rugged and had no easy routes to the interior. The growing seaborne traffic plying the western Black Sea coast had shown the need for a port of call for revictualling and repairs between the Bosphoran harbours and such wealthy trading colonies as Histria and Olbia, established some half a century ealier further north." R F Hoddinott, Bulgaria in Antiquity, p 33
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites Apollonia del Ponto: Two large gates and an island are known where the celebrated Sanctuary of Apollo and the major part of the ancient city were situated. A Greek inscription records the reconstruction of the ruined city and of the famous sanctuary by a Thracian tribe. The Imperial coins continue to use the name Apollonia until the 3d c. A.D., when the name Sozopol appears. During the Byzantine Empire Sozopol was the seat of a bishop, a rich and prosperous city that was frequented by the Genoese until it fell under Turkish domination in 1383. Today it is a modest town. Nothing of the ancient city remains visible above ground. Early excavations furnished little clarification. It is certainly on the island of St. Ciriaco where the stele of Anaxandros was found that the Temple of Apollo must be sought since all the material found in 1904, including a series of terracotta figurines datable to the 6th c. B.C., is connected with that cult; on the island of St. George there are traces of Byzantine construction. Both older and more recent excavations at Kalfata and the port of Giardino brought to light rich Greek necropoleis containing painted funerary vases dating between the 5th and the 2d c. B.C. The promontory is called Cape Kolokuntas (pumpkins) because of the great number of tumuli in the area. They are scattered over the upland and contain dromoi and funerary chambers, as was the Thracian custom. There are also cultural blendings as in the tumulus of Mapes, with dromoi and painted sarcophagi, where the Greek influence dominates.
Xenophon 7, 5 describes the Salmydessian coast between Apollonia and the Bosphorus:
...they [Xenophon and his troops] continued the march with Seuthes, and, keeping the Pontus upon the right through the country of the millet-eating Thracians, as they are called, arrived at Salmydessus. Here many vessels sailing to the Pontus run aground and are wrecked; for there are shoals that extend far and wide. [7.5.13] And the Thracians who dwell on this coast have boundary stones set up and each group of them plunder the ships that are wrecked within their own limits; but in earlier days, before they fixed the boundaries, it was said that in the course of their plundering many of them used to be killed by one another. [7.5.14] Here there were found great numbers of beds and boxes, quantities of written books, and an abundance of all the other articles that shipowners carry in wooden chests.
Apollonia Pontica, 450 - 400 BC. Silver Drachm. Anchor. / Gorgoneian facing with wild hair and a protruding tongure. VF ecoli
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Thrace, Cherronesos.Thrace, Cherronesos. Ca. 400-350 B.C. AR tetrobol (13 mm, 2.40 g). Forepart of a lion right, looking back / Quadripartite incuse; monogram and letter in two quadrants. McClean 4122. EF. Ex-John C Lavender G50
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Thrace, MaroneiaThrace, Maroneia. c189-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm.
Wreathed head of young Dionysos right / DIONUSOU SWTHROS MARWNITWN, nude Dionysos standing half-left, holding grapes narthex stalks & cloak. ecoli
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Thrace, MesembriaThrace, Mesembria.
Originally a Thracian settlement, known as Menebria, the town became a Greek colony when settled by Dorians from Megara at the beginning of the 6th century BC, and was an important trading centre from then on and a rival of Apollonia (Sozopol). It remained the only Dorian colony along the Black Sea coast, as the rest were typical Ionian colonies. At 425-424 BC the town joined the Delian League, under the leadership of Athens. Remains from the Hellenistic period include the acropolis, a temple of Apollo, and an agora. A wall which formed part of the fortifications can still be seen on the north side of the peninsula. Bronze and silver coins were minted in the city since the 5th century BC and gold coins since the 3rd century BC. The town fell under Roman rule in 71 BC, yet continued to enjoy privileges such as the right to mint its own coinage.
GR4 Circa Fourth Century BC. AR Diobol (1.18 gm) 11.25 mm. Crested helmet / Radiate wheel of four spokes; M-E-T-A within. SNG BM Black Sea 268. Very fine. ecoli
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Thrace, MesembriaMesembria, Thrace: AE 16 / Helmet
4th - 3rd c. BC. Corinthian helmet facing / META within spokes of a wheel. Fine+ with green and black patina. SNG BMC 273.
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Thrace, MesembriaGR6
Thrace, Mesembria. Circa Fourth Century BC. AR Diobol Crested helmet / Radiate wheel of four spokes; M-E-T-A within. SNG BM Black Sea 268. Very fine. ecoli
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Thrace, Mesembria Thrace, Mesembria
Mesembria, Thrace: AE 16 / Helmet
4th - 3rd c. BC. Corinthian helmet facing / META within spokes of a wheel. Fine+ with green and black patina. SNG BMC 273.ecoli
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Thrace, ThasosISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 412-404 BC. AR Hemiobol (7mm, 0.27 g). Head of a nymph left / Dolphin leaping left within incuse square. Le Rider, Thasiennes 13; SNG Copenhagen 1035; HGC 6, 341. VF, light porosity, deposit on reverse.ecoli
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Thrace, ThasosISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 500-480 BC. AR Hemiobol (7mm, 0.37 g). Two dolphins swimming in opposite directions / Quadripartite incuse square. Le Rider, Thasiennes, 9; HGC 6, 337. VF, darkly toned, some light porosity.ecoli
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Thracian Kings, LysimachosThracian Kings, Lysimachos, ?20mm. Struck circa 306-281 BC. Helmeted head of Athena right / BASILEWS LUSIMACOU above & below lion charging right; SNGCop 1149. G55ecoli
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Troas, AbydosTroas, Abydos. AE 11 (11.1 mm, 1.38 g, 3 h). Laureate head of Apollo right, ABY, eagle standing right. SNG Copenhagen 33; SNG von Aulock 1445. VF.ecoli
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TROAS, BirytisTROAS, Birytis 300-250 B.C. AE 1.23 g. Bearded head of Kabiros l., wearing pileus. Rev. Î’-Ι/Ρ-Î¥ Club, whole in laurel wreath. SNG Munich 170. SNG Tübingen 2574.ecoli
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Troas, GergisTroas, Gergis (4th cent. BC).
Obv.: Laureate head of the Sibyl Herophile three-quarter facing to right.
Rev.: Sphinx seated to right.
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Troas, GergisTroas, Gergis (4th cent. BC).
Obv.: Laureate head of the Sibyl Herophile three-quarter facing to right.
Rev.: Sphinx seated to right.
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TROAS, KebrenThe earliest Greek archaeological remains found at Cebren date to the mid-7th and early 6th century BCE and were found together with indigenous pottery, suggesting that to begin with the city was a mixed Greco-Anatolian community. Writing in the early 4th century BCE, Xenophon implies that the population of Cebren ca. 400 BCE still consisted of both Greek and Anatolian elements, indicating that the two ethnic groups co-existed long after the period of Greek colonization. Sources dating to the mid-4th century BCE considered the city an Aeolian Greek foundation, and the historian Ephorus of Cyme claimed that its founders were in fact from his own city, although this statement needs to be treated with some caution, since Ephorus was notorious in antiquity for exaggerating his hometown's importance. While we cannot ascertain the truth of Ephorus' statement, we can be sure that the early settlers were Aeolians, since a grave inscription for a citizen of Kebren written in the Aeolic dialect has been found at nearby Gergis.
In the 5th century BCE Cebren was a member of the Delian League and is listed in the Hellespontine district paying a tribute to Athens of 3 Talents from 454/3 down to 425/4, except in 450/49 when it only paid 8,700 drachmas. Following the defeat of Athens at the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404 BCE, Cebren came under the control of Zenis, the tyrant of Dardania, and his wife Mania who together controlled the Troad on behalf of the Persian satrap Pharnabazos. Cebren was captured by the Spartan commander Dercylidas in 399 BCE, but soon after returned to Persian control. In 360/59, the Greek mercenary commander Charidemus briefly captured the city before being repelled by the Persian satrap Artabazos. At some point in the 4th century BCE Cebren produced coinage depicting a satrap's head as the obverse type, indicating the city's close relationship with its Persian overlords. Cebren ceased to exist as an independent city ca. 310 when Antigonus I Monophthalmus founded Antigonia Troas (after 301 BCE renamed Alexandria Troas) and included Cebren in the synoecism.
TROAS, Kebren. Circa 387-310 BC. AR Obol (6mm, 0.43 g, 6h). Ram’s head right / Youthful male head right. SNG Ashmolean –; SNG Copenhagen –; SNG von Aulock 7621; Klein 313. VF, toned. Good metal. ecoli
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TROAS, KebrenTROAS, Kebren. Circa 387-310 BC. Æ Laureate head of Apollo right / Head of ram right. Lazzarini Series 4; SNG Ashmolean 1107; SNG Copenhagen 263-5 var. (ethnic).ecoli
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