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Ancient Greek and Roman coins from Asia Minor


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Ionia Uncertain (BC 600-550) Lion 1 - EL 1/6641 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Hekte (11mm, 2.20g). Two back to back lions' heads, facing downward with open jaws and lolling tongues, a volute decoration between / Single divided punch with volute design. Unpublished in the standard references. VF.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 550-500) Horse - EL 1/24631 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twenty-Fourth Stater (6mm, 0.60g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Figural type. Head of pegasos left / Incuse square. Near EF.

On most examples of this issue, the wing of Pegasos is off the flan, and therefore the type is usually referred to as a horse’s head.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 600-550) Lion 4 - EL 1/24621 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL 1/24 Stater (7mm, 0.59g). Milesian standard. Figural type. Head of roaring lion left / Incuse square. Good VF. Apparently unpublished denomination.

The cataloger of the Elektron collection associated its coins of this type to Rosen 304, but the style of the lion and the incuse punch are not consistent with these.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 600-550) Ram - EL 1/48613 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL 1/48 Stater (0.29g, 5mm). Milesian standard. Figural type. Head of ram right / Incuse square punch. Cf. CNG 76, 731 (1/24 stater), otherwise unpublished. Good VF. Extremely rare.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 625-600) Swastika - EL 1/6603 viewsca 625­-600 BC. EL Hekte - Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.53g). Lydo-­Milesian standard. Raised clockwise swastika pattern / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF. Well centered.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 550-500) Lion - EL 1/24603 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL 1/24 Stater (0.59g, 8mm). Head of lion right / Incuse punch of mill-sail pattern. gVF.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 650-600) thunderbolt - EL 1/6 Stater598 viewsca 600­-550 BC. EL Hekte - Sixth Stater (9.5mm, 2.36g). Lydo-­Milesian standard. Thunderbolt / Two incuse squares. VF. Extremely rare, apparently the second known.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 600-550) Griffin - EL 1/6598 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Hekte (2.31g, 11mm). Head of lion (or seal) left / Two incuse square punches. gVF.1 comments
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 600-550) Lion 1 - EL 1/12584 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Hemihekte (1/12 Stater) (9mm, 1.01g). Roaring lion's head left / Ornamented incuse punch. Unpublished in the standard references, but see CNG 61 (9/2002), lot 710 for a previous example. VF.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 625-600) Swastika - AR 1/12583 viewsca 625-600 BC. AR 1/12 Stater or Diobol (9mm, 1.05g). Raised swastika pattern surrounded by pellets / Quadripartite incuse square. gVF.1 comments
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 600-550) Figural - EL 1/96574 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL 1/96 Stater (4mm, 0.13g). Milesian standard. Figural type. Raised oval within linear outline (resembling an eye) / Irregular incuse punch. Unpublished in the standard references. Good VF.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 625-600) Swastika - EL 1/6570 viewsca 625-600 BC. EL Hekte – 1/6 Stater (2.52g, 11mm). Milesian standard. Geometric type. Raised clockwise swastika pattern / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF, lightly toned.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 550-500) Horse - EL 1/24562 views600-550 BC. EL 1/24 Stater (0.59g, 5mm). Bridled head of Pegasos left / Rough incuse square. EF. Carr coll.

On almost all other examples that have come to auction, or appear in standard references, the wing of the Pegasos is not on the flan, giving the appearance of simply the head of a horse.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 625-600) Swastika - EL 1/6558 viewsca 625-600 BC. EL Hekte – 1/6 Stater (10mm, 2.55g). Milesian standard, geometric type. Raised swastika pattern / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF. Ex CNG 82 (9/2009), lot 622.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 600-550) Lion 2 - EL 1/12551 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (7mm, 1.16g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Figural type. Facing lion head / Incuse square. Good VF, lightly toned.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 600-550) Figural - EL 1/24550 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL 1/24 Stater (0.59g). Milesian standard. Figural type. Palmette motif / Incuse square punch. gVF.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 550-500) Horse - AR 1/24549 viewsca 600-550 BC. AR Hemiobol (7mm, 0.54g). Horse’s head left / Rough incuse square. VF, toned.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 600-550) Lion paw - AR 1/48 535 viewsca 6th century BC. AR 1/48 Stater (0.29g). Lion's paw / Incuse square. Good VF. Rare. Mueller coll.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 600-550) Lion Paw - EL 1/24535 viewsca 6th century BC. EL 1/24 Stater (0.5g, 6mm). Lion's paw / Lion´s head facing within incuse punch. VF.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 625-600) Swastika - EL 1/24533 viewsca 625-600 BC. EL 1/24 Stater (7mm, 0.63g). Milesian standard. Geometric type. Raised clockwise swastika pattern / Quadripartite square punch. Good VF.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 500) Obol530 viewsca 5th century BC. AR Obol(?) (8mm, 0.65g). Helmeted head left / Ant within incuse square. gVF. Very rare.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 500) Obol528 viewsca 500 BC. AR Obol (7mm, 0.96g). Helmet left / Quadripartite incuse square, with irregular features and heavily stippled. VF. Ex Rosen Coll.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 600-550) Lion 2 - EL 1/24521 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL 1/24 Stater (5mm, 0.57g). Milesian standard. Figural type. Facing lion’s head / Incuse square. Good VF. Rare denomination.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 500-400) Hemiobol490 views5th century BC. AR Hemiobol (6mm, 0.31g). Archaic female head left, wearing helmet or close fitting cap / Stellate or floral pattern within incuse square. Unpublished in the standard references. Fine, toned, porous.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 550-500) Cock - EL 1/24476 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL 1/24 Stater (0.65g, 8mm). Bird (cock?) standing right / Quadripartite incuse square. VF. Extremely rare.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 600-550) Lion 4 - EL 1/12463 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (8mm, 1.19g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Figural type. Head of lion right / Incuse square. VF. Very rare.

The style of the obverse of this type has a resemblance to similar hemihektes of Miletos (cf. SNG Kayhan 444–8), but the attribution of those pieces is based on their incuses, all of which have geometric shapes or pellets similar to the staters that are conclusively proven to have been from Miletos (cf. SNG Kayhan 440–1). Further study, however, may eventually prove the attribution of these plain-incuse issues to Miletos as well.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 600-550) Lion Paw - EL 1/24461 viewsca 600­-550 BC. EL Myshemihekte - Twenty-­fourth Stater (6mm, 0.53g). Lydo­-Milesian standard. Lion’s paw / Facing lion head within incuse circle. Good VF. Very rare.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 520-480) Tetartemorion437 viewsMiletos(?), late 6th-early 5th century BC. AR Tetartemorion (4mm, 0.14g). Lion’s paw / Star of eight rays. Unpublished in the standard references. VF, toned, porosity. Very rare.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 600-550) Figural - EL 1/24428 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL 1/24 Stater (0.5g, 6mm). Milesian standard. Palmette motif / Incuse square punch. VF.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 625-600) Swastika - AR 1/12423 viewsca 620-600 BC. AR 1/12 Stater (1.00g, 9mm). Raised swastika pattern / Incuse square punch. VF.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 600-550) Lion paw - AR 1/48418 viewsca 6th century BC. AR 1/48 Stater (0.19g, 6mm). Lion's paw / Incuse square punch. VF.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 600-550) leg - EL 1/24413 viewsa 600-550 BC. EL 1/24 Stater (6mm, 0.67g). Leg and shoulder (of stag?) / Incuse punch of mill-sail pattern. VF. Extremely rare.

The exact nature of this design is not known, but it has the strong appearance of an animal's shoulder and leg, the hair on the lower part of the leg being highly evident on this example.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 550-500) Ram - EL 1/24407 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL 1/24 Stater (0.56g, 8mm). Head of ram left / Quadripartite incuse square. VF. Rare.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 600-550) Man - EL 1/24404 viewsca 600­-550 BC. EL Myshemihekte - Twenty­-fourth Stater (6mm, 0.65g). Phokaic standard. Archaic head right / Quadripartite incuse square. VF. Attractive early style. Extremely rare.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 625-600) Geometric - EL 1/2374 viewsca 625-600 BC. EL Hemistater (14mm, 6.99g). Geometric pattern, with cross set over lozenge and annulet / Incuse square punch. VF. Extremely rare.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 520-480) Tetartemorion359 viewsca 5th-4th century BC. AR Tetartemorion (0.15g, 5mm). Claw / Spiral or whirl. VF. Apparently unpublished.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 600-550) Lion paw - AR 1/48356 viewsAsia Minor, uncertain mint, ca 500 BC. AR Tetartemorion (0.25g). Lion’s paw / Irregular incuse punch. Extremely rare. Toned and good very fine. Ex Hauck & Aufhäuser 15 (2000), 93.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 625-600) Geometric - EL 1/2352 viewsca 625-600 BC. EL Hemistater (13.5mm, 7.04g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Unpublished, but cf. Triton XVII, lot 316 for a possible fraction of this type. Good VF. Extremely rare.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 600-550) leg - EL 1/24346 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Myshemihekte – Twenty-Fourth Stater (6mm, 0.66g). Uncertain design (chicken wing, rabbit leg, or human leg?) / Incuse square. Unpublished in the standard references. Good VF. Extremely rare.

The device on the obverse bears a strong resemblance to the obols attributed to Phlious in Phliasia (cf. BCD Peloponnesos 78–80), as does the reverse punch – a case of imitating types?
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 520-470) Triobol?338 viewsca 5th century BC. AR Hemidrachm / Triobol (?) (10mm, 2.32g). Forepart of horse right / Irregular quadripartite incuse. VF, granular surfaces.

This curious pale silver issue is struck on the thick, globular flan often associated with late figural electrum. The attribution is uncertain; Schönert-Geiss has published similar specimens as tetrobols of the earliest issues at Maroneia, while find spots seem to indicate an origin in Asia Minor.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 625-600) Geometric - EL 1/8332 viewsca 625-600 BC. EL 1/8 Stater (8mm, 1.80g). Raised square with sunken incuse and raised central pellet / Incuse square punch. aVF. Very rare.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 550-500) Lion - EL 1/48331 viewsca 6th-5th century BC. EL 1/48 Stater (5mm, 0.35g). Head of lion right / Quadripartite incuse square. aEF. Very rare.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 500-400) Hemiobol326 views5th century BC. AR Hemiobol (5mm, 0.31g). Archaic female head left, wearing helmet or close fitting cap / Stellate or floral pattern within incuse square. aVF. Extremely rare.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 500-400) Hemiobol325 views5th century BC. AR Hemiobol (0.31g, 7mm). Archaic female head right, wearing helmet or close fitting cap / Stellate or floral pattern within incuse square. VF. Extremely rare.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 625-600) Geometric - EL 1/2325 viewsca 625-600 BC. EL Hemistater (15mm, 7.12g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Unpublished, but cf. Rosen 331 for a fraction of this type with a nearly identical incuse pattern. Near EF. Extremely rare.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 550-500) Lion - EL 1/48300 views6th-5th century BC. EL 1/48 Stater (0.33g, 6mm). Head of lion right / Quadripartite incuse square. VF. Extremely rare.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 520-480) Hemiobol298 viewsca 5th century BC. AR Hemiobol (7mm, 0.40g). Spiral ornament / Incuse square punch. VF. Rare.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 520-470) Triobol?296 viewsca 5th century BC. AR Hemidrachm / Triobol (?) (10mm, 2.16g). Forepart of horse left / Irregular quadripartite incuse. Near VF, granular surfaces.

This curious pale silver issue is struck on the thick, globular flan often associated with late figural electrum. The attribution is uncertain; Schönert-Geiss has published similar specimens as tetrobols of the earliest issues at Maroneia, while find spots seem to indicate an origin in Asia Minor.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 625-550) Geometric - EL 1/48280 viewsca 625-600 BC. EL 1/48 Stater (5mm, 0.32g). Central line bisecting field, irregular lines radiating at sides / Three pellets arranged in triangle, with lines radiating around; all within incuse square. VF. Extremely rare.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 500-400) Hemiobol277 views5th century BC. AR Hemiobol (7mm, 0.51g). Archaic female head right, wearing helmet or close fitting cap / Stellate or floral pattern within incuse square. EF. Very rare.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 625-600) Swastika - EL 1/24275 viewsCirca 625-600 BC. EL1/24 Stater (0.65g, 8mm). Raised swastika pattern. / Quadripartite incuse square punch. EF. Carr coll.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 625-550) Geometric - EL 1/48254 viewsca 625-600 BC. EL 1/48 Stater (5mm, 0.32g). Phokaic standard. Central line bisecting field, irregular lines radiating at sides / Three pellets arranged in triangle, with lines radiating around; all within incuse square. EF, toned. Extremely rare fraction for series.
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Ionia Uncertain (BC 520-470) Triobol?234 views5th century BC. AR Hekte - Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.30g). Pegasos flying left / Quadripartite incuse square. Unpublished in the standard references. Near VF, toned, a little off center. Very rare. Ex Gorny & Mosch 237 (3/2016), lot 1416.
     
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