Roman coins front and back8/16/2023 ![]() REV.: Tripod incuse, with incuse border of radiating lines. Retrograde inscription in left field "KPW" (= KROTON), with archaic letter koppa raised dotted border (quite worn). Ptolemaic KingdomĬroton, Bruttium (Italy) Silver Stater, 530 BCE weight: 7.8g width: 1.98cm die axis: 2h OBV.: Tripod-lebes with three handles and lion’s feet in right field, marsh bird (heron?) facing left. XXX, 2-7 (there as "Darius (?)") tetradrachm SMBerlin Nr. The altar is framed by a falcon standard on the left and a barely visible ruler in adoring position with upraised arms on the right. Between the gables, a Farnah (king's splendor) hovering right. REV.: Fire altar (overstruck) with double-paneled doors, podium, pilaster, and architrave, surmounted by stepped gables. On top of the kyrbasia stands a royal falcon in frontal view with outstretched wings. 190-164 BCE weight: 3.9g width: 1.69cm die axis: 4h OBV.: In dotted border, head of ruler right, with close-cropped beard, a circular earring, and a flat kyrbasia (Persian crown) bound with a ruler's diadem which is tied in the back. Ref.: Carradice (1987) siglos type IIIb group A, pl. Silver Siglos, 485-470 BCE weight: 5.3g width: 1.6cm die axis: 11h OBV.: Royal archer running right, quiver on back, holding bow in his left and a transverse spear in his right hand. ![]() image RPC 4212 (but w/o cornucopiae) BMC Syria p. Pompeian Era date in exergue off the flan. Off-centered so that the right inscription (ANTIOXEWN THS) is missing inscription left: (M)HTROPOL(EWS) (= Antiocheon tes metropoleos, "of the metropolis of the Antiocheans"). REV.: Enthroned Zeus Nikephoros, i.e., Zeus holding a winged Nike in his right hand, in his left a sceptre. Houghton, CSE 955 (only MAT mark) ( more info).Īntioch-on-the-Orontes (autonomous city in Roman Syria), Bronze Unit (large denomination), 64-49 BCE weight: 8.3g width: 1.94cm die axis: 2h OBV.: In dotted circle, laureate head of bearded Zeus right. Ref.: SNG Spaer 385 (= Newell, ESM 180) and Spaer 386 (both with same control-marks) cf. Control-marks: monogram left: MAT, monogram right: APO (?). Inscription left: "ANTIXOY" (= Antiochou, "of Antiochos"), right: "BASILEWS" (= Basileos, "of the king"). Apollo’s bow is leaning against the right side of the omphalos. REV.: Naked Apollo sitting on the Delphic Omphalos, looking left down on an arrow, in dotted border.OBV.: : Diademed head of Antiochus I Soter (281=261 BCE) right, set in dotted border.Seleucid EmpireĪntiochus II (261-246 BCE), Silver Tetradrachm, Seleucia-on-the-Tigris mint Aramaic inscription in right field: TRKMW, i.e., Tarkamuwa, the Persian satrap known to the Greeks as Datames. REV.: Bearded male head (Ares?) wearing an Attic helmet with three-part crest and movable double visor, facing to the right, set in dotted border.OBV.: Facing head of a goddess or nymph, inclined to left, wearing a sphendone, multipendant necklace, and earrings, all set in dotted border.In left field, Greco-Pamphylian inscription ESTFEDIIYS (= Estwediiys, "Aspendian"). REV.: In dotted circle, slinger aiming sling right in right field, a triskeles of human legs (badge of the city) below that a club of Herakles and part of a Phi.OBV.: In dotted circle, two wrestlers locked in opening hold between them, mint mark FE (digamma epsilon).Pamphylia (Southern Turkey)Īspendos, Silver Stater, 4th century BCE weight: 10.3g (Persian standard) width: 2.36cm die axis: 11h Monogram PER (= Pergamon) on left on top DH above monogram PRY in right field, thyrsos entwined by serpent. REVERSE: Two serpents entwined around a gorytos (bow case) that is decorated with an aplustre (a curved decoration at an ancient ship's stern).OBVERSE: Serpent emerging from the half-open lid of a cista mystica, surrounded by ivy wreath design worn and off-center.Pergamon, Silver Cistophoric Tetradrachm, ca. Asia Minor and Eastern Aegean, including Egypt Mysia (Western Turkey) ![]() Ortwin Knorr (Associate Professor of Classics, Willamette University) with the assistance of Lauren Saxton, cand. ![]()
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