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Antissa (BC 300-200) AE 7512 viewsca 4th-3rd century BC. AE7 (1.1g). Head of Herakles in lion's skin to left / A-N, upright club. Very fine.
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Antissa (BC 300-200) AE 8776 viewsca 300-167 BC. AE8 (1.01g, 10h). Bull standing right, head reverted / A-N, upright club. Münzen und Medaillen GmbH 21, lot 600b; otherwise unpublished. VF, dark green patina. Extremely rare. Alighieri Coll.
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Antissa (BC 300-200) AE 9667 views3rd century BC. AE9 (1.06g). Bull standing right, head turned left / A-N, club. Unique? Joy coll.
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Antissa (BC 300-200) AE 9327 viewsca 250-40 BC. AE9 (0.92g). Cow standing right, head left; star below / Club upward; A N on either side. gVF.
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Antissa (BC 300-200) AE 11548 views4th-3rd century BC. AE11 (1.25g). Head of Herakles left, wearing lion skin / A - N, club. gVF.
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Antissa (BC 300-200) AE 12794 views3rd century BC. AE12 (1.64g). Bull standing left, head facing; club above / Α-Î/Τ-ΙΣ, head of Dionysos Phallen right, wearing conical headdress. VF. Extremely rare. Joy coll.; ex Lindgren coll.
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Antissa (BC 300-200) AE 15 1025 views3rd century BC. AE15 (3.4g). Head of young male right / Α-Î/Τ-ΙΣ, head of male right with pointed beard, wearing conical headdress (Dionysos Phallen). Very Fine.
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Antissa (BC 300-200) AE 18772 views3rd century BC. AE18 (4.96g). Head of young male right; countermark: rose? / Α-Î/Τ-ΙΣ, head of male right with pointed beard, wearing conical headdress (Dionysos Phallen); kerykeion in field to right. Light brown patina, VF. Very rare. Joy coll.
For identification as Dionysos Phallen see Imhoof-Blumer, Zur Münzkunde des Pontos, von Paphlagonien, Tenedos, Aiolis und Lesbos, ZfN 20 (1897), 285.
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Antissa (BC 400-300) Obol279 viewsca 4th century BC. AR Obol (7mm, 0.55g). Laureate head of Apollo(?) right / A-N, club(?). VF.
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Antissa (BC 400-300) Obol596 viewsca 400 BC. AR Obol (8mm, 0.71g, 6h). Youthful male head (apparently a sub-Saharan African) / Club, shown vertically with head below, dividing Α-Î; all within lozenge-shaped incuse. Apparently unpublished and unknown. A fascinating and intriguing coin, toned and clear as found. VF. Acquired in Munich in the late 1990s or early 2000s as "vermutlich Ainos."
There are quite a number of ancient coins that have clear types and easily decipherable legends, yet they still remain uncertain in their attribution. This piece was long thought to be from Ainos, probably because of its lozenge-shaped incuse and the supposed Α - - Πlegend could be paralleled by the early silver diobols of Ainos (May 22 ff.). The fact that those coins clearly have the legend Α-Ι, rather than Α-Πon the present piece, was explained by viewing the club as being a large Ι: this does seem to be reaching a bit! The possible attribution to Antissa, a town on Lesbos, has more to recommend itself. There are a number of late 4th/3rd century AE coins from Antissa (probably chalkoi - as Waddington 635), which have the same reverse type and legend. In addition, early 5th century billon obols, commonly attributed to Mytilene, bear the head of a young African male on their obverses: yet one, as Traité 2, I, 599 and pl. xv, 9, has a clear Α on the reverse (in a lozenge-shaped incuse), thus suggesting the series was minted in Antissa too.
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