Greek settlement took place in the 11th to 10th Centuries B.C. despite hostilities with the native Luwians. The Ionians were gradually conquered by the Lycian and later the Persian Empire, but was freed by Alexander and became a contested prize for the Hellenistic kings, until the last king of Pergamum bequeathed his land to Rome. Ionia offered the world countless philosophers and men of science, and a fabulous school of art.
This category covers the cities of Colophon, Ephesus, Magnesia ad Meandrum, Miletos, Phokaia, Smyrna, and more.
Reverse: Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter; grape bunch AΛEΞANΔPOY (ΠYPΦ)
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 4.3 g
Reverse: AΛEΞANΔΡOY - Zeus seated left, holding an eagle and a sceptre. ΩHME (Ω sideways) monogram above sphinx in left field.
Die Orientation: 11 H
Weight: 16.4 g
Reverse: Zeus enthroned left, holding eagle and scepter, barleycorn under throne, spear-spike right AΛEΞANΔPOY
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.86 g
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Reverse: Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; N in left field; Σ below throne.
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 4.21 g
Reverse: Tyche standing half left, holding rudder cornucopia; EΦECI_ΩN
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 7.7 g
Reverse: Artemis Leucophryene facing within tetrastyle temple, small Nike on both sides; EΠI ΓPA AV_P Φ_IΛO_VMENOV B MAΓNHTΩN
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 24 g
Reverse: Stag right; KOVΣI / NIOΣ / (TO) _ / Δ / EΦE
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 6.2 g
Reverse: incuse square
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.6 g
Reverse: Female head (Artemis?) left, wearing stephane
Die Orientation: -
Weight: -
Reverse: bee; E _ Φ
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 1.2 g
Reverse: stag right, quiver above; AΠOΛΛOΔΩPOΣ
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 4.36 g
Reverse: bee in wreath; E_Φ
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.37 g
Reverse: stag grazing right, quiver above; ΣOΛΩN
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 4.21 g
Reverse: stag standing right looking left; torch behind; ΠYΘΩN
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.7 g
Reverse: Two stags standing face to face with long torch between them; ΔHMH_TPIOΣ / KΩ_KOΣ / E_Φ / ΣΩΠATPOΣ
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 4.43 g
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Reverse: Two stags standing face to face with long torch between them ΔHMH_TPIOΣ / KΩ_KOΣ E_Φ ΣΩΠATPOΣ
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 5.1 g
Reverse: Five pellets within cruciform incuse
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.09 g
Reverse: incuse square
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.17 g
Reverse: incuse square; HM
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.47 g
Reverse: horse right; MHTPOΔΩPOΣ KOΛ
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 1.7 g
Reverse: lyre, palm right; AKAΣTOΣ ? KO
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.42 g
Reverse: rider holding spear pointed forwards & with chlamys flying behind, on horseback prancing right; KOΛ / APIΣTOΦANHΣ
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 4.4 g
Reverse: Athena Nikephoros seated left, left arm resting on shield, spear behind; race torch with fillets to outer left, monogram to inner left, ornament on throne.
Die Orientation: 0 H
Weight: 17.09 g
Reverse: head of Octavian Caesar right, CAESAR·IMP·PONT·III·VIR·R·P·C·
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.3 g
Mark Antony, Octavian Caesar, struck in Ephesus? from spring to early summer 41 BC. Moneyer held unusual office quaestor pro praetore in the east in 41-40 BC. He accompanie Mark Antony after the battle of Philippi. He was probably also Curule Aedile. He restored aedicula shrine on the Forum Romanum and fountain of goddess Juturna (Lacus Iuturnae).
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Reverse: III•VIR• R•P•C - head of Octavia atop cista mystica, between twisting snakes.
Die Orientation: 12 H
Weight: 12.4 g
"Following the death of Octavia's first husband C. Claudius Marcellus in 40 BC, her marriage to Antony sought to seal the Pact of Brundisium in which it had been agreed that Octavian would assume control of the west and Antony of the east. The striking of this type cements the agreement before the people of Ephesus, an important city, later made the capital of Asia Minor by Augustus in 27 BC. Octavia spent two winters with Antony in Athens and in 37 BC assisted in securing the Triumvirate for another 5 years at the Pact of Tarentum. Following this, Antony returned to the east and, having left Octavia behind, lived with Cleopatra VII in Egypt. Although they divorced in 32 BC, after Antony's defeat at the Battle of Actium and subsequent suicide, Octavia raised all of his surviving children by Fulvia and Cleopatra, along with her own."
Provenance: Roma Numismatics, Auction XX (29-30 October 2020), lot 373.
Reverse: Bare head of Octavian right, wearing slight beard; CAESAR • IMP • PONT • III • VIR • R • P • C • around.
Die Orientation: 12 H
Weight: 3.99 g
Reverse: incuse quadrilobe, Stellate pattern of five pellets
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.15 g
Reverse: ΦIΛIΠΠOY / Zeus seated left on throne without back, nude to waist, himation around hips and legs, right leg forward, feet on footstool, eagle in extended right hand, long scepter vertical behind in left hand, monogram below throne
Die Orientation: 0 H
Weight: 3.88 g
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Reverse: forepart of a griffin left; BATIΣ
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 4.12 g
Reverse: quadripartite incuse square
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.49 g
Reverse: incuse square
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.28 g
Reverse: facing owl standing on amphora, star above pileus on both sides (caps of Dioscurii), ΠPI_H AXIΛΛEI / ΔHΣ
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 6.1 g
Reverse: facing owl standing on amphora over palm branch; ΠPIH on left, ΔIONY / ΣIOY to right
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 7.58 g
Reverse: facing owl standing on amphora over palm branch within wreath; ΠPIH on left, ΔIONY / ΣIOY to right
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 5.97 g
Reverse: Septimus Severus on horse prancing right, wearing cuirass and chalmys, is about to spear fallen enemy; CA_M_I_Ω_N
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 25 g
Reverse: eagle standing left, head right, wreath in beak; CMVPNA_IΩN
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.7 g
Reverse: hand in caestus right, branch above; ΣMYPNAIΩN / AΘHNAΓOPAΣ
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.6 g
Reverse: rough incuse square
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.6 g
Reverse: quadrate incuse square
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.29 g
Reverse: Lyre
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.88 g
Reverse: Tyche facing, head left, wearing kalathos, holding rudder and cornucopia; CAM_IΩN
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 4.4 g