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Ancient Greek and Roman coins from Asia Minor


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Kyzikos (BC 170-150) Tetradrachm 603 viewsca 170-150 BC. AR Tetradrachm (35mm, 17.04g, 12h). Stephanophoric type. Draped bust of Kore right, wearing oak wreath / ΚΥZΙ - ΚΗΝΩΝ, torch; monograms above and below; all within laurel wreath. Good VF, gray toning with golden hues in the devices. Very rare, apparently unpublished with these monograms. Lipcer Coll.
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL 1/12 Stater 601 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Hemihekte – 1/12 Stater (1.34g). Head of tunny left, holding in its mouth a small tunny upward / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF. Very rare.
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Kyzikos (BC 550-500) EL 1/6 Stater601 viewsca 550-500 BC. EL Hekte - 1/6 Stater (2.70g). Forepart of dog (or roaring lion?) left, head right; tunny to right / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF, lightly toned. Extremely rare, apparently the second known. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica L (5/2001), lot 1332.
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Kyzikos (BC 410-400) Hemiobol601 viewsca 410-390 BC. AR Hemiobol (8mm, 0.34 g, 10h). Head of Attis left, wearing Phrygian cap / Head of bull facing slightly right. VF, some porosity.

The portrait on this particular issue is thought to be Attis, the consort of Phrygian Kybele. The androgynous Kybele/Agdistis was castrated by the gods. From the severed parts grew an almond tree from which Attis sprang. Attis appears infrequently in Greek art, but he was raised in status when the Romans adopted the cult of Kybele.
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(BC 263-241) Eumenes I - Tetradrachm600 viewsEumenes I, 263-241 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 17.02g, 12h). Struck ca 255/50-241 BC. Laureate head of Philetairos right / Athena enthroned left, resting on shield to right, holding transverse spear; ivy leaf to outer left, monogram to inner left, bow to outer right. EF, toned, tiny edge nick, area of slight roughness on reverse.
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Gambrion (BC 350-250) AE 11599 views4th century BC. AE11 (1.00g, 11h). Laureate head of Apollo right / Bull butting left. VF, dark grayish-green patina, minor roughness.
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Pergamon (BC 132) AE 15598 viewsca 2nd-1st century BC. AE16 (2.54g). Laureate head of bearded Asklepios left / Snake coiled around staff, A to left. Brown patina, VF/F Scarce.
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Prokonnesos (BC 411-387) Hemidrachm598 viewsca 411-387 BC. AR Hemidrachm (12mm, 2.46g). Head of Aphrodite left, hair in sphendone / Oenochoë. Good VF, toned, minor die rust.
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Kyzikos (BC 410-400) Hemiobol598 viewsca 410-400 BC. AR Hemiobol (8mm, 0.30g, 11h). Head of Attis left, wearing Phrygian cap; tunny below / Bull’s head facing slightly right. VF, toned, porous.
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Pergamon (AD 253-268) AE 37 - Gallienus597 viewsGallienus, 253-268 AD. AE37 (26.04g, 6h). Homonoia with Ephesus. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Askelpius and Artemis Ephesia standing facing. Near VF, dark green patina, edge a bit irregular.
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Pergamon (BC 450-400) Obol597 viewsca 420 BC. AR Obol (0.55g). Laureate head of Apollo right / Calf's head right, eye to left, ΠΕΡΓ to right, all within incuse square. Ex Hirsch 234 (2004) lot 287.
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Parion (BC 200-0) AE 23596 viewsca 2nd-1st cent. BC. AE23 (7.28g). Facing head of gorgon (Medusa?), countermark: monogram in incuse circle / Eagle standing right, monogram before. Good VF, dark green patina.
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Parion (BC 400-300) Hemidrachm596 viewsca 4th cent BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.21g). Gorgoneion with protruding tongue facing, surrounded by aegis, E above / Bull standing left, head turned to right, wreath below, ΠΑ / ΡΙ. gVF.
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL 1/12 Stater 595 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Hemihekte – 1/12 Stater (1.33g). Tunny right; above, tail of tunny left; below, head of tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. VF. Very rare.
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Kyzikos (BC 460-440) Trihemiobol594 viewsca 450-400 BC. AR Trihemiobol (1.15g). Protome of a lion with open jaws to left, and with both forelegs visible; behind, tunny fish swimming downwards / Ram's head to left; all within incuse square. Extremely rare. Toned. Minor die break on the reverse, otherwise, extremely fine.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/6 Stater594 viewsca 500­-450 BC. EL Hekte (2.65g). Male naked and bearded figure riding dolphin left, holding tunny in his outstretched right hand; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Rare. Of lovely style and extremely fine.
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL 1/24 Stater593 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL 1/24 Stater (7mm, 0.63g). Head of tunny right / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF. Extremely rare denomination. Ex Künker 133 (10/2007), lot 8126.
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Lampsakos (BC 190-85) AE 23591 viewsca 190-85 BC. AE23 (7.46g). Head of Priapos right / Forepart of winged horse right, ΛΑΜΨΑ − ΚΗΝΩΝ, palm branch to R. VF.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL Stater591 viewsca 500-450 BC. EL Stater (18mm, 16.11g). Head of female left, wearing sphendone; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF, a few edge splits. Unique stater denomination for this issue.
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Iolla (BC 4th cent) AE 17590 views4th century BC. AE17 (2.99g, 16mm). Laureate head of Zeus right / ΙΟΛΛΑΕΩΝ, forepart of winged horse right, grain ear below. gVF.
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Kyzikos (BC 450-330) EL Hekte589 viewsca 450-330 BC. EL Hekte (2.66g, 10mm). Perseus kneeling right, head reverted, wearing a winged hood, cloak over shoulders fastened with circular brooch on breast, head of Medusa in left hand, sickle (harpa) in right; below, tunny fish right / Quadripartite incuse square. Unusually well centered, gVF. Carr coll.

The ‘Perseus’ emissions are known for denominations of stater through 1/96th. Most examples do not capture the whole ‘scene’ - commonly either the head of Perseus or Medusa being off the flan. This coin is possibly the second best published example capturing the major features [For an example that is even sharper in its detail, see Gemini IX (1/2012) lot 105].
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Harpagion (BC 4th cent) AE 12587 viewsca 4th cent BC. AE12 (1.21g). Laureate head of Demeter right, hair in sakkos / Fish right, ΑΡΠΑΓ above, grain ear below. Good VF, dark green patina, surfaces a little rough. Extremely rare city.
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Pitane (AD 54-68) AE 19585 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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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) Hemiobol585 viewsca 550-500 BC. AR Hemiobol (0.48g). Lotus flower (?), tunny fish below / Mill-sail pattern incuse. Unpublished.
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Pergamon (AD 218-222) AE 34 - Elagabalus585 viewsElagabalus, 218-222 AD. AE34 (24.57g). ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΥΡ ΑΝΤΩΝЄΙΝΟC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / ЄΠΙ CΤΡ ΤΙΒ ΚΛΑ ΑΛЄΧΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΠЄΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ / ΠΡΩΤΩΝ Γ ΝЄΟΚΟΡΩΝ, emperor sacrificing over altar. Very rare. Dark green patina, very fine.
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Lampsakos (BC 500-450) AR Tetrobol585 viewsca 500-450 BC. AR Tetrobol (11mm, 2.58g). Forepart of a bridled Pegasos left / Quadripartite incuse square. Near VF, porous. Very rare.
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Parion (BC 200-0) AE 18584 viewsca 2nd-1st cent BC. AE18 (4.76g). Veiled bust of Demeter R, within dotted circle / Π-Α/Ρ-Ι, ear of barley between two pomegranates on stalks.
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Lampsakos (BC 470-450) Obol584 viewsca 500-450 BC. AR Obol (7mm, 0.71g, 6h). Female janiform head / Helmeted head of Athena left within incuse square. VF, toned, granular surfaces.
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Atarneos (BC 350-300) AE582 views400-350 BC. AE (0.99g). Laureate head of Apollo right / Forepart of horse right, ATAP above. aEF, dark green patina. Mueller Coll.
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Kyzikos (BC 520-480) Obol582 viewsca 500 BC. AR Obol (1.05g). Dolphin left above tunny / Quadripartite incuse square. Apparently unpublished.
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Iolla (BC 4th cent) AE 17581 views4th cent BC. AE17 (4.82g). Laureate head of Zeus right / Forepart of Pegasos right; ΙΟΛΛΑ above, grain-ear below. VF, black-green patina. Ex Garth R. Drewry Coll.
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Prokonnesos (BC 400-350) Hemidrachm580 viewsca 400-350 BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.44g). Head of Aphrodite left, hair in sphendone / ΠΡΟ-ΚΟΝ, oinochoe. Near VF. Scarce.
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Teuthrania (BC 400) Drachm - Prokles580 viewsca 400-399 BC. AR Drachm (3.25g, 13mm, 5h). Prokles, Satrap of Teuthrania and Halisarna. Head of Apollo left / Head of Prokles right, wearing Persian headdress; tamgha (of Prokles?) below chin. VF, toned, porous. Extremely rare, the third known.

According to Xenophon (Hell. 3.1.6), the cities of Teuthrania and Halisarna were ruled by the brothers Eurysthenes and Prokles as a hereditary territory that had been awarded to their ancestor, the exiled king of Sparta, Demaratos the Lakedaimon, by Xerxes for accompanying the Great King on his Greek expedition (see Hdt. Book 7 for the relationship between the two). The hereditary rule of Teuthrania and Halisarna by the direct descendants of Demaratos, among whom were Eurystenes and Prokles – namesakes of the twin ancestral establishers of the Spartan royal line, suggests that these rulers were not satraps, but local dynasts (for a bibliography of the discussion on the differentiation between satraps and dynasts, see O. Mørkholm, “Pergamene Coins in Copenhagen,” in Studies Mildenberg, p. 182, note 2). Thus, this is one of the earliest depictions of a Greek ruler on a coin.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) Hemiobol578 viewsca 550-500 BC. AR Hemiobol (0.46g). Lotus flower; tunny to right / Quadripartite incuse square. Unpublished. Good VF, granular surfaces.
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Adramytteion (BC 200-100) AE 17578 views4th century BC. AE17 (5.39g, 11h). Laureate head of Zeus left / Rider on galloping horse right. VF, dark green, almost black, patina. Alighieri Coll.
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Kyzikos (BC 200-100) AE 30577 views2nd-1st cent BC. AE30 (13.74g). Wreathed head of Kore Soteira right, within dotted circle / Tripod, ΚΥZΙ−ΚΗΝΩΝ on either side, monogram to left, long torch below. Dark olive-green patina, VF. Gutknecht coll.
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Pergamon (AD 218-222) AE 42 - Elagabalus577 viewsElagabalus, 218-222 AD. AE42 - Medallion (36.00g, 6h). Ti. Claudius Alexander, theologos and strategus. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; countermark: animal suckling infant in incuse circle / Hercules advancing right, holding raised club and lion skin, fighting Amazon (Hippolyte) standing right; name in legend. VF, red and brown patina, rough. Extremely rare.
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Kyzikos (BC 430-400) Hemiobol576 viewsca 480-450 BC. AR Hemiobol (0.51g, 9mm). Forepart of boar left, tunny behind / Head of roaring lion left, lying E in upper left field. Very fine. Apparently unpublished with E.
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Parion (BC 200-0) AE 23575 viewsca 2nd-1st cent BC. AE23 (5.41g, 6h). Facing head of Medusa / Eagle standing right; monogram to right. Coin without the usual countermarks. Very fine.
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Parion (BC 200-0) AE575 viewsca 2nd-1st cent BC. AE (10.72g). Gorgoneion facing / Bull standing left, ΠΑΡΙ above, uncertain symbol below. Red-brown patina, VF. Rare.
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Lampsakos (BC 27-AD 14) AE 15 - Augustus575 viewsAugustus, 27 BC-14 AD. AE15 (3.07g, 12h). Laureate head right / Ithyphallic Priapus standing left. VF, green patina. Very rare. Ex. Wagner Coll.
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Lampsakos (BC 190-85) AE 21575 viewsca 190-85 BC. AE21 (5.99g, 12h). Laureate head of Apollo right; c/m: grape bunch / Lyre; to left, forepart of Pegasos left. Countermark gVF, host coin F, dark brown patina.
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Kyzikos (BC 550-500) EL 1/6 Stater 574 viewsca 550-500 BC. EL Hekte – 1/6 Stater (2.64g). Facing lion’s head; to right, tunny downward / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF. Rare.
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Parion (BC 45) AE 15573 viewsTime of Julius Caesar, ca 45 BC. AE15 (2.77g, 12h). C. Matuinus and T. Anicius, aediles. C G I P, female head right, wearing stephane / D D, Praefericulum. VF.
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Kyzikos (AD 166-177) AE 33 - Commodus573 viewsCommodus, as Caesar, 166-177 AD. AE33 (21.75g). Λ ΑΥΡ ΚΟΜΟΔΟC ΚΑΙCΑΡ ΓЄΡ CЄΒ ΥΟC, draped bust right / ΚΥZΙ/ΚΗΝΩΝ ΝЄΟΚΟ, galley, below tunny and dolphin. Dark green patina, GVF.
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Adramytteion (AD 218-222) AE 34 - Elagabalus572 viewsElagabalus, 218-222 AD. AE34 (23.06g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Zeus standing left, holding eagle and scepter. Near VF, dark greenish-brown patina, pierced through the center.
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Astyra (BC 400-395) AE 12 - Tissaphernes 572 viewsTissaphernes, Satrap, ca 400-395 BC. AE12 - Chalkous (0.98g). Astyra. Helmeted head of Athena right / ΤΙΣΣΑ-ΦΗ, bearded head of Dionysos (or Tissaphernes?) right. aVF.
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Kyzikos (AD 200-270) AE 19571 views3rd century AD. AE19 (4.01g, 12h). Diademed and draped female bust right / Bull standing right. VF, green patina. Ex Alighieri Coll.
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Kyzikos (BC 27-AD 14) AE 16 - Augustus571 viewsAugustus, 27 BC-14 AD. AE16 (3.13g). Bare male head right / K-Y/Z-I, torch, all within laurel wreath. Rare. Nice green patina, VF.
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Kyzikos (BC 170-150) Tetradrachm 571 viewsca 170-150 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.73g, 12h). Stephanophoric type. Head of Kore Soteira right, wearing oak wreath / Club left; KYZI-KHNΩN above and below; monogram at top and bottom; all within oak wreath. VF, toned, numerous marks under tone on obverse. Very rare. Liles Coll.; ex Hunt Coll. (6/1990), lot 467.
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Kyzikos (BC 450-400) Obol571 viewsca 450-400 BC. AR Obol (10mm, 0.90g, 9h). Forepart of boar left; to right, tunny upward / Head of roaring lion left within incuse square. Superb EF, attractively toned. Great metal. Exceptional for issue.
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) Stater569 viewsca 600-550 BC. AR Stater (14.69g, 19mm). Head of tunny left; tail of tunny fish above / Rough incuse square. ANS collection - bequest of E.T. Newell.
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Miletopolis (BC 200-0) AE 20568 viewsca 3rd-2nd century BC. AE20 (5.07g) Head of Athena right, wearing crested helmet / Double-bodied owl, head facing, ΜΙΛΗΤΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ around.
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Kyzikos (BC 550-500) EL Stater 567 viewsca 550-500 BC. EL Stater (20mm, 16.05g). Half-length figure of winged female (harpy?) left; to left, tunny downward / Quadripartite incuse square. VF, toned. Very rare.
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Apollonia ad Rhyndakon (AD 96-98) AE 18 – Nerva566 viewsNerva, 96-98 AD. AE18 (3.41g). Laureate head right / Apollo, nude, standing right, holding arrow and resting elbow on tall column before him. VF, green patina. Rare. Wagner Coll.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/6 Stater566 viewsca 500-450 BC. EL Hekte (2.66g, 10mm). Winged hound or wolf crouching left, head right; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. VF.
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Pergamon (AD 198-217) AE 37 - Caracalla565 viewsCaracalla, 198-217 AD. AE37 - Medallion (31.71g, 6h). Fl(avius) Zenokratous, strategos. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Emperor on horseback right, raising hand in salute; to right, captive seated left before trophy. Near VF, brown patina, smoothed in areas. Rare.
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Poimanenon (AD 14-37) AE 17 - Tiberius564 viewsTiberius, 14-37 AD. AE17 (3.87g, 7h). Laureate head right / Livia (as Pax) seated right, holding olive-branch and scepter. Near VF, black-green patina with traces of green and earthen encrustation. Unique. Ex Villemur Coll.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL Stater564 viewsca 500-450 BC. EL Stater (17mm, 16.04g). Nude youth kneeling left, right hand holding tunny by its tail / Quadripartite incuse square. VF, lightly toned. Nicely centered.
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Kyzikos (BC 390-340) Drachm563 viewsca 390-340 BC. AR Drachm (3.09g, 14mm, 11h). Wreathed head of Kore Soteira left, hair in sphendone covered with veil / Head of lion left; below, tunny fish left; uncertain monogram to right; all within concave incuse. VF, toned. Rare denomination.
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Poimanenon (AD 138-161) AE - Antoninus Pius560 viewsAntoninus Pius, 138-161 AD. AE (4.43g) AUT L AD[R]I AN[...]IN, head R / POIMANHNWN, standing Apollo with kithara in the left hand and plektron in the right. RRR! VF
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Gambrion (BC 400-350) AE 6560 viewsca 400 BC. AE6 (0.7g). Laureate head of Apollo left / ΓAM, facing gorgoneion. aEF.
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Miletopolis (BC 300-100) AE 20559 views3rd-2nd century BC. AE20 (6.98g). Facing head of Athena / Owl standing left, head facing, ΜΙΛ-ΗΤΟ. Unpublished.
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Kyzikos (BC 200-100) AE 31559 views2nd-1st cent BC. AE31 (10.54g). Wreathed head of Kore Soteira right, within dotted circle / Tripod, ΚΥZΙ−ΚΗΝΩΝ on either side, monogram to left, ΔΥ to right, long torch below. Olive-brown patina, gVF. Gutknecht coll.
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Miletopolis (BC 100-AD 100) AE 21 - Axiochus559 viewsAxiochus, 1st cent BC-1st cent AD. AE21 (5.50g, 12h). O ΔHMOC AXIOCON, bare head right / [MIΛHTOΠOΛITΩN], draped bust of Athena right, wearing Corinthian-style helmet and [aegis]. Near VF, brown patina. Extremely rare. Ex Villemur Coll.

While the portrayal on the obverse of this coin may be either the individual Axiochus or the Demos of Miletopolis, the obverse inscription makes it clear that this coin was struck to honor one of that city’s benefactors. By following Greek epigraphic convention, the name of the dedicatee (AXIOCON) is placed in the accusative case, while the verb of dedication is not indicated, but implied: “The Demos honors Axiochus.” Just who this Axiochus was remains a mystery. The name is not unknown in the Greek world (a dialogue of the same name ascribed to Plato is known), and several Romanized Axiochi are attested in inscriptions and graffiti (cf. CIL VI.13.19 - Sex. Pompeius Axiochus). What is clear is that Axiochus was one of the numerous euergetai, or benefactors of the Roman Empire: wealthy individuals who supported public projects, or liturgies, in their hometowns.
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Parion (AD 253-268) AE 28 - Gallienus559 viewsGallienus, 253-268 AD. AE28 (9.91g, 7h). IΛΛR LICINN C K; cuirassed and laureate bust right / C Є PA[…], emperor, as founder, plowing right; vexillum behind bull. Unpublished. Good very fine.
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Kyzikos (BC 300-200) AE 19559 views3rd century BC. AE19 (4.55g, 6h). Head of Kore Soteira left, hair in sphendone covered with a veil, wearing wreath of grain ears / Tripod; below, tunny left; grape bunch to left. VF, attractive dark forest green patina. Rare with grapes. Liles Coll.
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Pitane (BC 350) AE 11557 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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Plakia (BC 350) AE556 views4th century BC. AE (1.58). Turreted head of Tyche right / Head of lion right; [ΠΛΑΚΙA to right].
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Kyzikos (AD 170-190) AE 17555 viewsQuasi-autonomous, 170-190 AD. AE17 (4.13g). Head of Kore Soteira right, wearing grain wreath / KYZIK - KHNΩN, jar with two handles. Rare. About VF, good style. Hoeft coll.

In Kyzikos Persephone was warshipped as Kore Soteira (= Saviour).
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Kyzikos (BC 450-400) Trihemiobol555 viewsca 450-400 BC. AR Obol (10mm, 1.26g, 9h). Forepart of boar left; to right, tunny upward / Head of roaring lion left within incuse square. EF.
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Parion (BC 200-0) AE 14554 views2nd-1st cent BC. AE14 (3.50g). Facing head of Medusa / Owls standing facing on palm. VF, green patina. Rare. David Herman Coll.
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Kyzikos (AD 200-300) AE 17551 views3rd cent AD. AE17 (3.94g, 6h). Anepigraphic, head of Kore right, wearing grain ear wreath / lion advancing right; KVZIKH, NWN in exergue. Good VF, dark green patina. An apparently unpublished reverse type for this issue.
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Parion (BC 100-0) AE 22550 viewsca 1st cent BC. AE22 (4.71g). Square burning altar (altar of Parion?), one corner lifted; bukranion on front plate, thyrsos below / ΠΑΡΙ in olive wreath. Oversruck on? (rev. head of Demeter left). Dark green patina, gVF. Rare. Gutknecht coll.
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Pergamon (BC 450-400) Obol548 viewsca 420 BC. AR Obol (0.49g). Laureate head of Apollo right / Calf's head right, ΠΕΡΓ to left, within incuse square. gVF. Very rare.
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Miletopolis (AD 238-244) AE - Gordian III544 viewsGordian III, 238-244 AD. AE Medallion (59.78g). AUT KAI - M ANT GORDIANOC AUGOU, laureate and cuirassed bust right, spear over left shoulder / CTR AUR ER-M-OU MEILHTO-PO/LEITWN, Gordianus with spear in right hand on horse galloping right, lion left below, head reverted. Brown patina with traces of silvering on obverse. VF/aVF.
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Pergamon (AD 254-268) AE 28 - Salonina544 viewsSalonina, 254-268 AD. AE28 (9.44g). KOP CAΛΩNЄINA CЄ, bust right / ЄΠI C AVP ΔAMA ACIAP ΠЄPΓAMHN[...]ΩN ΠPΩT Γ NЄΩK, Hygieaia feeding snake. Red brown patina. Minor roughness. gVF.
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Lampsakos (AD 138) AE 20 - Antoninus Pius544 viewsAntoninus Pius, as Caesar, 138 AD. AE20 (5.61g, 7h). Bare head right / Winged hippocamp right. VF, pleasing green patina. Rare.
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Priapos (BC 300-200) AE 11543 views3rd century BC. AE11 (1.44g). Laureate and bearded male (Zeus?) head right / Amphora. Apparently unpublished, but cf. SNG France 2412.
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Pergamon (AD 209-211) AE 44 - Geta542 viewsGeta, 209-211 AD. AE44 - Medallion (52.42g, 6h). Menogenes, strategus. Struck 209-211 AD. • AVTOKPA • KAI • ΠOΠΛIOC CЄΠTI ΓЄTAC •, laureate and cuirassed bust right, slight drapery on shoulder; cuirass decorated with aegis / Geta right on horseback, preparing to hurl javelin at bound captive below horse’s raised front hooves; captive running right with head reverted; round shield below horse. Near EF, dark green patina patina with earthen overtones in devices, some smoothing. Very rare. From Group CEM. Ex Tkalec (2/2001), lot 320.
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Perperene (BC 400-300) AE 9541 views4th century BC. AE9 (0.68g). Laureate head of Apollo right / ΠΕ-ΡΠ, grape bunch on vine. Rare.
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Lampsakos (BC 470-450) Drachm541 viewsca 500-450 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 4.69g). Janiform female head / Helmeted head of Athena left within incuse square. gVF, light graffito in the reverse field.
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Priapos (BC 300-200) AE 18535 viewsca 3rd century BC. AE18 (4.54g). Laureate head of Apollo right / Shrimp or cray-fish right.
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Perperene (BC 400-300) AE 9533 views4th century BC. AE9 (0.66g). Laureate head of Apollo right / Grape bunch with vines. Very fine.
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Pergamon (BC 350-310) AE 9532 viewsca 350 BC. AE9 (0.83g, 3h). Laureate head of Apollo right / Confronted bull’s heads; grain ear between, ΠΕΡΓA below. VF, dark green patina.
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Priapos (BC 300-200) AE 10530 viewsca 3rd cent BC. AE10 (1.05g). Laureate head of Apollo right / Cray-fish left, uncertain symbol above, ΠΡΙ[Α] below. Dark green patina, gVF. Very rare. Gutknecht coll.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/6 Stater530 viewsca 550-500 BC. EL Hekte (2.66g, 12mm). Winged male mythological creature (Phobos or Daimon) with human body, lion head, griffin’s ears and wings, running/kneeling left, head turned right, holding tunny by tail in left hand / Quadripartite incuse square. NGC graded Choice XF, strike 5/5, surface 4/5, nicely centered, struck from artistic dies. An excellent example of archaic representation of local deity from Asia Minor. Carr coll.

A remarkable mythological type usually known from the stater with the same design. At times identified as Phobos, the personification of terror, the figure may also be the Mithraic divinity Areimanios (Ahriman) as argued by Bivar, "Mithra and Mesopotamia," Mithraic Studies (Manchester, 1975), pp. 275-89.
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Kyzikos (AD 222-235) AE 30 - Severus Alexander528 viewsSeverus Alexander, 222-235 AD. AE30 (11.42g) Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / Two serpent-entwined torches flanking lighted altar.
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Pergamon (AD 198-217) AE 43 - Caracalla527 viewsCaracalla, 198-217 AD. AE43 - Medallion (49.03g, 6h). M. Caerelius Attalus, strategus. Struck 214-215 AD. [AVT KPAT] K MAPKOC AVP ANTΩNЄINOC, laureate and cuirassed bust right; gorgoneion on breastplate / Caracalla standing left, holding scepter and raising hand to serpent entwined about tree; small figure of Telesphorus on low basis between; ЄΠI CTPA M [KAIPЄΛ ATTALOV] in legend. VF, brown patina, smoothed.
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Parion (AD 253-268) AE 26 - Gallienus523 viewsGallienus, 253-268 AD. AE26 (7.95g). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Triumphal arch surmounted by quadriga of elephants between Victories. VF, thick pale green patina, rough. Ex Wagner Coll.
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Parion (AD 253-268) AE 27 - Gallienus523 viewsGallienus, 253-268 AD. AE27 (8.05g). Laureate head right / She-wolf standing right, suckling the twins Romulus and Remus. Scarce. EF, exceptional for this type.
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Poimanenon (AD 196-198) AE 24 - Caracalla522 viewsCaracalla, Caesar, 196-198 AD. AE24 (7.86g, 11h). Draped and cuirassed bust right / Eros standing facing, head right, holding bow and arrows and sacrificing over altar to right. VF, brown patina, minor roughness. Rare.
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Pergamon (BC 133-27) AE 16522 viewsca 133-27 BC. AE16 (4.23g, 12h). Laureate head of Asklepios (or Apollo?) right / ΑΣΚΛΗΠΙΟΥ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ, tripod. Near EF, dark green patina.
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Prokonnesos (BC 400-350) Diobol521 viewsca 400-350 BC. AR Diobol (1.20g). Female head (Aphrodite?) right, hair in sphendone; within circular dotted border / Forepart of stag right, head turned back; behind stag ΠPO / KON over an oinochoé. Rare. Black patina.
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Kyzikos (BC 200-100) AE 26520 viewsca 2nd cent BC. AE26 (7.27g, 6h). Bull butting right on ground line, within dotted circle / KYZI/KHNΩΝ, Flaming torch, monogram below. About extremely fine.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) Hemiobol520 viewsca 525-475 BC. AR Hemiobol (8mm, 0.50g). Bird standing right before tunny; three(?) pellets around / Square incuse punch of mill-sail pattern. Near VF, porous. Extremely rare. Apparently unpublished.1 comments
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Lampsakos (BC 470-450) Hemiobol 518 viewsca 500-450 BC. AR Hemiobol (0.44g, 9mm). Janiform female head / Helmeted head of Athena left within incuse square. VF.
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Hadrianeia (AD 238-244 ) AE 43 - Gordian III517 viewsGordian III, 238-244 AD. AE43 - Medallion (46.01g, 12h). S. Furius Themisonos, archon. • AVT • K • M • ANT • ΓOPΔIANOC • AVΓ, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ЄΠI C • ΦO-VP • ΘЄMICΩNOC • AP/ AΔPIANЄ•/ΩN, Tyche-Homonoia, holding patera in right hand and cornucopia in left, seated left, being crowned with wreath by Victory, holding palm frond in left hand; to left, Mercury standing right, seen from behind, holding caduceus in left hand and purse in right. EF, green and reddish-brown patina, minor obverse die shift, gently smoothed. Extremely rare.

Spoerri Butcher (RPC VII.1) recorded only two specimens for Furius Themisonos, as well as a unique specimen of the same type and from the same obverse die but signed by the archon K. Phanias Themisonos. This is perhaps the third known for this variant and the only in private hands. The obverse die used for this issue was also used to strike medallions for Germe in Mysia.
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Miletopolis (AD 193-211) AE 35 - Septimius Severus516 viewsSeptimius Severus, 193-211 AD. AE35 (23.84g). Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right; c/m: NI / Hermes seated left, holding caduceus. Fine, brown patina. From the Ian Roper Collection.
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Parion (BC 27-AD 14) AE 25 - Augustus516 viewsAugustus, 27 BC-14 AD. AE25 (9.07g, 1h). Bare head right / Capricorn right, head left, bearing cornucopia on its back. VF, green patina with earthen overtones. Ex Gorny & Mosch 104 (10/2000), lot 674.
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