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Ancient Greek and Roman coins from Asia Minor


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Pitane (BC 400-350) Hemiobol980 views4th century BC. AR Hemiobol(?) (7mm, 0.39g, 5h). Head of Zeus-Ammon right / Pentagram within shallow incuse square. VF, toned, minor porosity. Extremely rare.
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Pitane (BC 400-350) Hemiobol931 views4th century BC. AR Hemiobol(?) (7mm, 0.43g). Head of Zeus-Ammon right / ΠΙΤΑΝA, pentagram within shallow incuse square. VF, a little porous. Extremely rare, perhaps the second known.

Head cites a specimen in the BM, but that piece remains unpublished - it does not appear in the BMC volume on Mysia (1892), and was not in any of the published acquisitions before Head wrote Historia Nummorum in 1911.
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Pitane (BC 400-350) Obol898 viewsca 4th century BC. AR Obol (0.58g). Female head right with hair piled high / ΠΙΤΑΝA around ram's head right, all within shallow incuse square. Unpublished?
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Pitane (BC 350) AE 17780 viewsca 4th cent BC. AE 17 (4.91g). Horned head of Zeus Ammon right / Pentagram, pellet in center, ΠΙΤΑΝ. EF/VF. Rare.
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Pitane (BC 350) AE 16738 viewsca 4th century BC. AE16 (3.66g) Horned head of Zeus Ammon right / Pentagram, pellet in center, ΠΙΤΑΝ. VF, brown patina. Rare. Freedman Coll.
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Pitane (BC 27-AD 14) AE 20 – Augustus & Scipio667 viewsAugustus, 27 BC-14 AD. AE20 (4.59g, 12h). P. Cornelius Scipio, proconsul, struck ca 8/7 BC (?). [CEBAC]TON ΠITANAIOI, laureate head of Augustus right / Π CKIΠIωNA, bare head of Scipio right; to right, head of Zeus-Ammon facing slightly left above pentagram. VF, brown patina. Rare. Ex Villemur Coll.
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Pitane (AD 54-68) AE 19604 viewsTime of Nero, 54-68 AD. AE19 (4.30g) G. Furius magistrate. ΘЄΑΝ ΡΩ-ΜΗΝ, draped bust with turreted headdress / ЄΠΙ ΦΟΥΡΙΟΥ ΠΙ[ΤΑΝΑΙΩΝ], bearded head of Zeus Ammon, before Pentagram. Unpublished. Dark green patina, VF.

RPC I, 407 published two known Pitane types of G. Furius, bearing the portaits of Nero and Agrippina both have one cited example (RPC 2394 and 2395).
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Pitane (BC 350) AE 11578 viewsafter 350 BC. AE11 (1.11g). Horned head of Zeus Ammon right / Pentagram, pellet in center, Π-Ι-Τ-Α-N surrounding. Black patina, EF. Rare. Gutknecht coll.
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Pitane (BC 350) AE 9538 views4th-3rd century BC. AE9 (0.78g). Head of Zeus Ammon right / [Π]-I-Σ-O-Σ, pentagram with pellet in center. VF, dark green patina. Rare with this reverse legend. Alighieri Coll.

The vast majority of Pitane’s coinage of the “Zeus Ammon / pentagram” type features an ethnic on the reverse. This rare specimen probably carries the name of a magistrate.
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Pitane (BC 400-350) Obol533 views400-350 BC. AR Obol (8mm, 0.49g). Female head right / ΠΙΤΑΝA, head of ram right within incuse square. aVF. Very rare.
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Pitane (BC 350) AE 11530 viewsca 4th cent BC. AE11 (1.58g). Horned head of Zeus Ammon right / Pentagram, pellet in center, ΠΙΤΑ surrounding. VF, dark green patina.
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Pitane (AD 81-96) AE 18 - Domitian480 viewsDomitian, 81-96 AD. AE18 (3.08g). KA CЄBACTOC ΔOMITIANO, laureate head right / ΠITANAIΩN, Nike left with palm branch. Very fine.
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Pitane (BC 350) AE 11469 viewsca 4th-3rd century BC. Æ11 (1.20g). Head of Zeus-Ammon right / Pentagram; ΠΙ in field. VF, black patina, areas of minor roughness.
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Pitane (AD 54-68) AE 19 - Nero461 viewsNero, 54-68 AD. AE19 (4.72g). Eisidoros, magistrate. Struck ca 54-59 AD. Bare head right / Head of Zeus-Ammon facing slightly left. Near VF, green and brown patina, obverse cleaning scratches, rough. Rare. Wagner Coll.
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Pitane (BC 330-280) AE 13424 viewsca 300 BC. AE13 (0.70g, 12-13mm). Head of nymph right / ΠΙ in circle line. Extremely rare. aEF.
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Pitane (BC 400-350) Hemiobol422 views4th century BC. AR Hemiobol (7mm, 0.41g). Laureate head of Zeus right / ΠΙΤΑΝA, pentagram within shallow incuse square. VF. Very rare.
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Pitane (BC 350) AE 11420 views4th century BC. AE11 (1.37g, 3h). Head of Zeus Ammon right / Π-I, pentagram with pellet in center.
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Pitane (BC 350) AE 9417 viewsca 4th cent BC. AE9 (2.0g). Horned head of Zeus Ammon right / Pentagram, leaf in center, ΠΙΤΑ around. aEF.
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Pitane (BC 350) AE 17409 views4th century BC. AE17 (3.20g). Horned head of Zeus Ammon right / Pentagram. Very fine.
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Pitane (BC 300-250) AE 14377 viewsca 4th-3rd century BC. AE14 (3.41g, 11h). Head of Zeus-Ammon facing slightly right / Coiled serpent right; pentagram to right. Near VF, brown surfaces.
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Pitane (AD 98-138) AE 17369 viewsca 1st century AD. AE17 (2.09g, 17mm). ΘΕΑ ΡωΜΗ, turreted head of Rome right / ΠΙΤΑΝΑΙωΝ, shield ornamented with Pentagram. Rare. aVF.
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Pitane (BC 300-250) AE 10319 views4th-3rd century BC. AE10 (2.21g, 12h). Head of Zeus-Ammon facing slightly left / Coiled serpent right; pentagram to right. Near VF, green patina.
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Pitane (BC 350) AE 10318 viewsca 4th century BC. AE10 (0.67g). Head of Zeus Ammon right / Π-I-Σ-O-Σ, pentagram. Rare. gVF.
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Pitane (AD 98-138) AE 15308 viewsTime of Trajan and Hadrian, 98-138 AD. AE15 (1.85g). Helmeted and cuirassed bust of Athena right / ΠITA-NAIΩN, Telesphorus standing facing. VF, dark brown patina. Drewry coll.
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Pitane (BC 330-280) AE 9286 viewsca 4th-3rd century BC. AE9 (0.65g). Female head right / ΠΙ within circle. VF.
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Pitane (AD 198-217) AE 32 - Caracalla255 viewsCaracalla, 198-217 AD. AE32 (20.82g). Laureate and cuirassed bust right with aegis / Asklepios standing facing Tyche or Hygieia to the right. Black patina, F. Franke coll.
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Pitane (BC 300-250) AE 17250 views4th-3rd century BC. AE17 (3.96g). Head of Zeus facing slightly right, wearing horns of Ammon / ΠΙ-ΤΑ-ΝΑΙΩΝ, pentagram; to right, serpent coiled right. gF. Very rare.
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Pitane (BC 150-50) AE246 viewsca 150-50 BC. AE (3.78g). Head of Zeus with laurel wreath, facing right, surrounded by circular dotted border / Facing head of Zeus, wearing horns of Ammon, within an ivy wreath.
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Pitane (BC 400-350) Hemiobol229 views4th-3rd century BC. AR Hemiobol (6mm, 0.28g, 7h). Female head right / ΠI within incuse square. Apparently unpublished. Very fine.
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Pitane (BC 330-280) Hemiobol209 viewsca 400-300 BC. AR Hemiobol (6mm, 0.28g, 7h). Female head to right / ΠΙ in incuse square. Apparently unpublished. Very fine.
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Pitane (AD 98-138) AE 15167 viewsca 50-100 AD. AE15 (2.19g). ΘΕΑ ΡωΜΗ, turreted head of Rome right / ΠΙΤΑΝΑΙωΝ, shield ornamented with Pentagram.
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Pitane (BC 300-250) AE 15162 views4th-3rd century BC. AE15 (1.8g). Head of Zeus facing slightly right, wearing horns of Ammon / Pentagram.
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Pitane (BC 330-280) Hemiobol143 viewsca 400-300 BC. AR Hemiobol (4mm, 0.29g). Head of nymph (or Maenad) right / ΠΙ in incuse square. Apparently unpublished.
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Pitane (AD 193-211) AE 18 - Septimius Severus132 viewsSeptimius Severus, 193-211 AD. AE18 (2.97g). Laureate head right; uncertain legend around / ΠΙΤΑΝΑΙΩΝ, Asklepios standing facing, head left, leaning upon serpent-entwined staff. Extremely rare. gF.
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Pitane (BC 300-250) AE 12119 viewsca 350-250 BC. AE12 (1.74g). Head of Zeus facing slightly right, wearing horns of Ammon / ΠΙ within wreath.
 
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