Asia Minor Coins - Photo Gallery

Ancient Greek and Roman coins from Asia Minor


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Kyme (BC 460-400) Hemiobol862 viewsca 450-400 BC. AR Hemiobol (8mm, 0.47g). K-Y, head of eagle left / Quadripartite incuse square. EF.
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Kyme (BC 460-400) Hemiobol 546 viewsca 480-450 BC. AR Hemiobol (9mm, 0.49g). K-Y, head of eagle left / "Mill-sail" incuse square. aEF.
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Kyme (BC 460-400) Hemiobol503 viewsca 450-400 BC. AR Hemiobol (8mm, 0.45g, 10h). Head of eagle left; star below beak / Quadripartite incuse square, H-P-A-K counterclockwise within quarters. Good VF, toned, minor porosity. The third known.
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Kyme (BC 460-400) Tetartemorion636 viewsca 480-450 BC. AR Tetartemorion (1/4 obol) (0.20g). Eagle's head left / "Mill-sail" incuse square. Toned, VF. Mueller coll.
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Kyme (BC 460-400) Tetartemorion638 viewsca 450-400 BC. AR Tetartemorion (6mm, 0.2g). Head of goat right / "Mill-sail" incuse square. gVF. Apparently unpublished.
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Kyme (BC 460-400) Trihemiobol505 viewsca 5th century BC. AR Trihemiobol (1.33g, 10mm). Head of eagle left, KY to left / Granulated "mill-sail" incuse square. aEF. Apparently unpublished.
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Kyme (BC 480-450) BI Trihemiobol634 viewsca 480-450 BC. BI Trihemiobol (10mm, 1.43g). Head of eagle right, KY below / Quadripartite incuse square. VF. Very rare.
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Kyme (BC 480-450) BI Trihemiobol260 viewsca 480-450 BC. BI Trihemiobol (10mm, 1.38g). Head of eagle right, KY below / Quadripartite incuse square.
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Kyme (BC 480-450) BI Trihemiobol225 viewsca 5th century BC. BI Trihemiobol (10mm, 1.40g). Head of eagle right / Incuse square. gVF. Very rare.
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Kyme (BC 480-450) Hemiobol1316 views5th cent BC. AR Hemiobol (0.53g). Head of eagle left, K-Y to left / Rough incuse square. Good very fine.


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Kyme (BC 480-450) Hemiobol521 viewsca 480-450 BC. AR Hemiobol (7mm, 0.48g). Eagle’s head left / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF, well centered, porous.
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Kyme (BC 520-470) Diobol463 viewsca 500 BC . AR Diobol (1.17g). Horse’s head right / Quadripartite incuse square roughly divided. Extremely rare and apparently unrecorded in all major reference works. About extremely fine. Ex Hauck & Aufhäuser 12 (1996), 117.
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Kyme (BC 520-470) Hemiobol493 views5th century BC. AR Hemiobol (7mm, 0.36g). Horse’s head right / Rough incuse square. Good VF.

While such coins are generally assigned to an uncertain Thraco-Macedonian mint, the style of the current coin is more refined than any of the horse types in Tzamalis. “Horse/incuse” types were almost certainly minted at multiple locations, and a mint in (western?) Asia Minor would seem logical based on provenances.
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Kyme (BC 520-470) Obol1002 viewsca 500 BC. AR Obol (0.67g) Forepart of bridled horse left / Incuse square.
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Kyme (BC 520-470) Obol1915 viewsca 500 BC. AR Obol (0.84g). Forepart of horse right / Quadripartite incuse square. Very rare. Good VF.
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Kyme (BC 520-470) Obol327 viewsca 6th-5th centuries BC. AR Obol (7mm, 0.64g). Head of bridled horse left / Incuse square punch. gVF. Rare.
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Kyme (BC 520-470) Obol247 viewsca 500 BC. AR Obol (7mm, 0.78g). Head of bridled horse right / Quadripartite incuse square.
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Kyme (BC 520-470) Tetartemorion793 viewsca early 5th century BC. AR Tetartemorion (?) (0.25g). Head of horse left / Incuse square. VF. Rare.
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Kyme (BC 520-470) Tetartemorion578 viewsca 500-450 BC. AR Tetartemorion (0.21g, 7mm). Head horse left / Quadratum incusum. VF.
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Kyme (BC 520-470) Tetartemorion638 viewsca 500-450 BC. AR Tetartemorion (?) (0.28g). Head of horse right / Quadratum incusum. VF. Rare. Mueller coll.
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Kyme (BC 520-470) Tetartemorion852 viewsca 500-450 BC. AR Tetartemorion (?) (0.24g). Head of horse left / Quadripartite incuse square. VF. Rare. Mueller coll.
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Kyme (BC 520-470) Tetartemorion819 viewsca 500-450 BC. AR Hemiobol (7mm, 0.22g). Head of horse right / Quadripartite incuse square. VF. Rare.
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Kyme (BC 520-470) Tetartemorion894 views5th century BC. AR Tetartemorion (7mm, 0.18g). Horse’s head left / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF, porosity.


While such coins are generally assigned to an uncertain Thraco-Macedonian mint, the style of the current coin is more refined than any of the horse types in Tzamalis. “Horse/incuse” types were almost certainly minted at multiple locations, and a mint in (western?) Asia Minor would seem logical based on provenances.
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Kyme (BC 550-500) Stater556 viewsca 550-500 BC. AR Stater (11.74g, 20mm). Forepart of horse right / Two incuse square punches of unequal size, both with stellate patterns. VF, toned. Very rare.

From RAJ Coll.; ex Rosen Coll. (Münzen und Medaillen AG 72, 10/1987), lot 256; Abbott Coll. (Glendining, 10/1951), lot 270; Weber Coll., 5474 (Weber’s pedigree to Yorke Moore sale is apparently erroneous).
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