Jan's Collection
Really, it is no small anxiety to keep by one a large sum of money; and happy is the man who has all his cash well invested, and who needs not keep by him more than he wants for his daily expenses. I am not a little puzzled to find in the whole of this house a safe hiding-place. Don't speak to me of your strong boxes, I will never trust to them. Why, they are just the very things thieves set upon!
The Miser, ACT I. SCENE IV.
Jan
(1) Italia
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An Aes rude unit struck 800-300 BC in Italia
Obverse:

Reverse:

Diameter: 45 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 100.4 g
No notes for this coin
Vecchi ICC 1
Roman Republican (Before 211 BC)
(2) Selinos
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An AR Litra struck c. 530-500 BC in Selinos
Obverse: selinos leaf

Reverse: selinos leaf within incuse circle

Diameter: 11 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.6 g
No notes for this coin
SNG ANS 687; SNG München 879
Greek (City Coinage)
(3) Phokaia | Teos
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An AR Tetartemorion struck 521-478 BC in Phokaia | Teos
Obverse: head of griffin left

Reverse: incuse square

Diameter: 6 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.28 g
No notes for this coin
Cf. Hirsch 221, lot 331, BMC 88-89
Greek (City Coinage)
(4) Miletos
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An AR Obol struck 520-500 BC in Miletos
Obverse: head of lion left

Reverse: star ornament within incuse square

Diameter: 8 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 1.07 g
No notes for this coin
Pfeiler, 6; SNG von Aulock 2080; BMC 12; SNG Delepierre 2644; SNG Cop. 948
Greek (City Coinage)
(5) Miletos
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An AR Obol struck 520-500 BC in Miletos
Obverse: head of lion left

Reverse: star ornament within incuse square

Diameter: 7.5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 1.1 g
No notes for this coin
Grose 8210, SNGvA 2081, SNG Cop 944v, BMC 186, Sear #3533
Greek (City Coinage)
(6) Kolophon
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An AR Tetartemorion struck 520-500 BC in Kolophon
Obverse: head of Apollo right

Reverse: incuse square

Diameter: 5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.17 g
No notes for this coin
SNG von Aulock 1810 var(head right); SNG Kayhan 352
Greek (City Coinage)
(7) Miletos | Erythrai
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An AR Hemitetartemorion struck c. 520-480 BC in Miletos | Erythrai
Obverse: rosette with central pellet

Reverse: incuse quadrilobe, Stellate pattern of five pellets

Diameter: 4 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.15 g
No notes for this coin
SNG Kayhan 740; Klein 433.
Greek (City Coinage)
(8) Korinthos
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An AR Stater struck c. 515-450 BC in Korinthos
Obverse: Pegasos with reins left; Ϙ

Reverse: head of Athena wearing Corinthian helmet and necklace right within incuse square

Diameter: 17.5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 7.9 g
Exemplar der Sammlung Jean-Claude Bourgeois, Auktion Poinsignon, Besançon 26. Mai 2012, Nr. 190.
Ravel 129 var.
Greek (City Coinage)
(9) Aegina
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An AR Stater struck c. 510-485 BC in Aegina
Obverse: turtle, row of dots on the back

Reverse: incuse square ( “Union Jack” pattern)

Diameter: 20 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 12 g
No notes for this coin
Milbank 3; BMC Attica, p. 126, 3; SNG Cop 502
Greek (City Coinage)
(10) Achaemenid Empire
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An AR Siglos struck 510/505-486 BC in Sardis
Obverse: Great King right bearded and crowned kneeling-running, drawing bow, quiver at shoulder

Reverse: incuse square

Diameter: 14.5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 5.3 g
No notes for this coin
Carradice type II: Carradice plate XI, 11 - 13; BMC Arabia p. 173, 185 ff.; SGCV II 3428; Klein 754; Noe Sigloi pl. XIII, 215 ff.; Carradice NC 1998 pl. 3, 58 ff; Asyut Hoard 714; Winzer 1.6; Sunrise 21. Common. 73935
Eastern (Achaemenid Empire)
(11) Siris
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An AR Trihemiobol struck c. 500-480 BC in Siris
Obverse: Satyr crouching right, without tail; •

Reverse: rough incuse square

Diameter: 8 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 1.1 g
Thraco-Macedonian region
HPM p. 81, 12, pl. VII, 13 var. (no pellet); SNG ANS 969 (“Lete”)
Greek (Other Greek)
(12) Kos
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An AR Obol struck 500-480 BC in Kos
Obverse: crab

Reverse: quadripartite incuse square

Diameter: 8 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.6 g
No notes for this coin
SNG Copenhagen 615-6 (diobols); HGC 6, 1297; BMC 5; SNG Kayhan 903.
Greek (City Coinage)
(13) Teos
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An AR Hemidrachm struck c. 500-460 BC in Teos
Obverse: Griffin seated right

Reverse: rough incuse square

Diameter: 12 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.6 g
No notes for this coin
Balcer group XXI, 51-6; SNG Copenhagen 1434
Greek (City Coinage)
(14) Lampsakos
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An AR Hekte struck c. 500-450 BC in Lampsakos
Obverse: forepart of Pegasos right

Reverse: quadripartite incuse square

Diameter: 10 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.2 g
pale EL hekte (1/6 stater)
Traité I 104 = J.P. Six, "Monnaies grecques, inédites et incertaines (suite)" in NC 1894, p. 314 and pl. XIII, 8; Triton X, lot 272; CNG 94, 459; CNG 88, lot 295.
Greek (City Coinage)
(15) Thraco-Macedonian
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An AR Hemiobol struck c. 500-450 BC in Thrace | Macedonia
Obverse: Head of ram right

Reverse: Kantharos within incuse square

Diameter: 6 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.3 g
uncertain mint in Thraco-Macedonian region
Tzamalis 50.
Greek (Other Greek)
(16) Lesbos
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An BL Hemiobol struck 500-450 BC in Lesbos
Obverse: confronting boar heads, creating the illusion of a facing head of a panther

Reverse: incuse square punch

Diameter: 8 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.49 g
1/20 or 1/24th of Stater
BMC Lesbos p152,18
Greek (City Coinage)
(17) Phaselis
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An AR Tetrobol struck c. 500-440 BC in Phaselis
Obverse: Prow of galley right; uncertain controlmark below

Reverse: Stern of galley left; ΦAΣ

Diameter: 14 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.4 g
No notes for this coin
SNG von Aulock-; Cf Heipp-Tamer 72
Greek (City Coinage)
(18) Ephesos
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An AR Drachm struck 500-420 BC in Ephesos
Obverse: bee

Reverse: incuse square

Diameter: 14 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.6 g
No notes for this coin
Karwiese Series VI, 1B; SNG Kayhan -
Greek (City Coinage)
(19) Kebren
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An AR Obol struck c. 500-400 BC in Kebren
Obverse: head of Apollo left

Reverse: ram head left within incuse square

Diameter: 6.5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.65 g
No notes for this coin
SNG Ashmolean 1086 (diobol); SNGvA 1546 (same), Rosen 534 (same), SNG Cop -, SNG Munchen -, BMC Troas -
Greek (City Coinage)
(20) Odrysian Kingdom | Parion imitative
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An AR Hemidrachm struck 500-350 BC in Thrace
Obverse: head of Medusa (Gorgoneion) facing

Reverse: incuse square with cross and pellet

Diameter: 13 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 1.71 g
Forum note: "This type has traditionally been attributed to Parion, Mysia or as a Celtic imitative of the Parion type. Based on find locations in the area of Plovdiv, Haskova, Stara Zagora and Yambol in Bulgaria, Topalov has reattributed this imitative type to the Thracian Odrysian Kingdom. He notes they may have been struck by a tribal mint or by one of the Greek cities within Odrysian territory to pay their annual tax to the tribe."
cf.SNG France 1347; cf.SNG Copenhagen 256
Greek (Odrysian Kingdom)
(21) Kolone
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An AR Hemiobol struck 500-300 BC in Kolone
Obverse: head of Athena right wearing Corinthian helmet

Reverse: star ornament within incuse square

Diameter: 6 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.5 g
No notes for this coin
Cf. Gorny & Mosch 176, 1246; Peus 407, 2012, 485; Auktion Hauck & Aufhäuser 15, 2000, Nr.96 f; Naumann 8/134; SNG Kayhan II vgl. 1583
Greek (City Coinage)
(22) Italia
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An Aes grave Formatum struck 500-300 BC in Italia
Obverse: axe shaped

Reverse:

Diameter: 56 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 67.8 g
No notes for this coin
No references provided for this coin
Roman Republican (Before 211 BC)
(23) Argilos
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An AR Hemiobol struck c. 495-460 BC in Argilos
Obverse: forepart of Pegasos right

Reverse: quadripartite incuse square

Diameter: 7 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.4 g
No notes for this coin
Liampi, Argilos period VI, 122-127; SNG ANS 763; Rosen 116
Greek (City Coinage)
(24) Sinope
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An AR Drachm struck 490-425 BC in Sinope
Obverse: stylized head of eagle left

Reverse: quadripartite incuse square with two opposing quarters filled, the others stippled

Diameter: 15 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 5.7 g
No notes for this coin
SNG BM Black Sea 1359-63; HGC 7, 384.
Greek (City Coinage)
(25) Parion
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An AR Drachm struck c. 480 BC in Parion
Obverse: head of Medusa (Gorgoneion) facing

Reverse: incuse square with angles in the corners forming cruciform pattern, pellet in center

Diameter: 11 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.7 g
No notes for this coin
SNG BnF 1347; SNG Delepierre 2526; SNGvA 1318; SNG Cop 256; BMC Mysia p. 94, 1 ff.; SGCV II 3917
Greek (City Coinage)
(26) Akragas
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An AR Didrachm struck 480-470 BC in Akragas
Obverse: sea eagle; AK / AЯ

Reverse: crab

Diameter: 20 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 8.6 g
ex Dr. Ernst von Ferrari-Kellerhof
Jenkins, Gela, Group IV; SNG ANS 954-5.
Greek (City Coinage)
(27) Abydos (Troas)
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An AR Obol struck 480-450 BC in Abydos (Troas)
Obverse: eagle left, star above; ABY

Reverse: facing head of Medusa within incuse square

Diameter: 8 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.55 g
No notes for this coin
SNG Copenhagen 5; BMC 4-5
Greek (City Coinage)
(28) Kyme
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An AR Hemiobol struck 480-450 BC in Kyme
Obverse: head of eagle left, KY

Reverse: quadripartite incuse square

Diameter: 6 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.42 g
No notes for this coin
SNG Cop 31; Klein 333.
Greek (City Coinage)
(29) Kyme
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An AR Hemiobol | Tetartemorion struck 480-450 BC in Kyme
Obverse: head of eagle left; KY

Reverse: quadripartite incuse square

Diameter: 5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.3 g
No notes for this coin
SNG Cop 31; Klein 333. (hemiobol)
Greek (City Coinage)
(30) Trikka
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An AR Hemidrachm struck c. 480-400 BC in Trikka
Obverse: naked Thessalian youth standing right, restraining forepart of unruly bull prancing right

Reverse: forepart of bridled horse prancing right, within incuse square TPI_KK_AI (retrograde)

Diameter: 16 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.56 g
No notes for this coin
SNG Oxford 3933; BCD Thessaly II 768; BCD Thessaly I 1351
Greek (City Coinage)
(31) Lycia
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An AR 1/6 Stater struck 480/470-430 BC in Xanthos?
Obverse: Pegasos left; •

Reverse: triskeles within dot circle

Diameter: 10.5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 1.4 g
uncertain dynast, ex Roma Numismatics
Cf. Falghera 73 (stater, square incuse); SNG Copenhagen Supp. –; SNG von Aulock 8469 (tetrobol, square incuse); BMC 123 var. (Pegasos right, no pellet)
Eastern (Lycian Dynasts)
(32) Assos
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An AR Obol struck c. 479-450 BC in Assos
Obverse: gryffin right

Reverse: lion head right

Diameter: 7.5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.3 g
No notes for this coin
BMC Troas p. 36, 3; Weber 5318; SGCV II 4044; Klein - ; Rosen -; SNGvA -; SNG Cop -,
Greek (City Coinage)
(33) Phokaia
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An EL Hekte struck 478-387 BC in Phokaia
Obverse: female head left wearing sakkos and earrings; seal downwards

Reverse: quadripartite incuse square

Diameter: 10 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.49 g
No notes for this coin
Bodenstedt Em. 92.; CNG E-Auction 418 lot 279
Greek (City Coinage)
(34) Teos
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An AR Tetartemorion struck 475-450 BC in Teos
Obverse: seated griffin right, rising leg

Reverse: quadrate incuse square

Diameter: 8.5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.29 g
No notes for this coin
SNG Kayhan 601
Greek (City Coinage)
(35) Abdera
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An AR Hemiobol struck 475-448 BC in Abdera
Obverse: forepart of gryffin left

Reverse: scallop shell within insuce square

Diameter: 6 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.2 g
No notes for this coin
May 198-9; SNG Copenhagen 319
Greek (City Coinage)
(36) Abdera
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An AR Obol struck 473-448 BC in Abdera
Obverse: seated griffin left rising leg

Reverse: quadripartite incuse square

Diameter: 9 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.6 g
No notes for this coin
May 191; SNG Cop. 312 ff.
Greek (City Coinage)
(37) Uvug
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An AR Obol struck 470-440 BC in Xanthos?
Obverse: Forepart of winged human-headed bull right

Reverse: Male? head right; OFOV (Uvug) within incuse square

Diameter: 7 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.7 g
No notes for this coin
Babelon, Traité, 315 ff var.; SNG von Aulock 4119 var. (tetrobol)
Eastern (Lycian Dynasts)
(38) Aspendos
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An AR Stater struck c. 465-430 BC in Aspendos
Obverse: Hoplite advancing right, wearing only helmet, holding spear and shield; tortoise between legs

Reverse: triskeles with leaping lion left within incuse square; tortoise in the top right corner; E_Σ

Diameter: 20 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 11 g
No notes for this coin
SNG von Aulock 4484 (same dies)
Greek (City Coinage)
(39) Aspendos
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An AR Obol struck c. 465-430 BC in Aspendos
Obverse: Amphora

Reverse: triskeles, pellet; E_Σ

Diameter: 9 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.9 g
No notes for this coin
SNG France 14; SNG von Aulock 4485; Traité II 1545
Greek (City Coinage)
(40) Thasos
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An AR Hemiobol struck c. 463-411 BC in Thasos
Obverse: dolphin left; ••

Reverse: quadripartite incuse square

Diameter: 5.5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.2 g
No notes for this coin
Le Rider 10; SNG Cop -; BMC 23 var (no pellets)
Greek (City Coinage)
(41) Segesta
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An AR Didrachm struck c. 460-440 BC in Segesta
Obverse: Hound standing left

Reverse: Head of the nymph Segesta right, swastika behind

Diameter: 21 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 8.2 g
ex Roma Numismatics
SNG ANS 621 (Without Swastika); McClean 2543 (Without Swastika)
Greek (City Coinage)
(42) Side
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An AR Stater struck c. 460-430 BC in Side
Obverse: pomegranate

Reverse: head of Athena right wearing Corinthian helmet and necklace, within incuse square

Diameter: 21 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 10.9 g
No notes for this coin
Atlan 16 (O15/R14); SNG BN –; Weber 7353 (same dies)
Greek (City Coinage)
(43) Mende
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An AR Tritartemorion struck c. 460-423 BC in Mende
Obverse: ass standing right

Reverse: crow standing right within incuse square

Diameter: 8 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.5 g
No notes for this coin
SNG ANS 354
Greek (City Coinage)
(44) Tanagra
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An AR Hemidrachm struck 457-448 BC in Tanagra
Obverse: Boeotian shield

Reverse: forepart of horse right within incuse square; T_A

Diameter: 11 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.1 g
No notes for this coin
Dewing 1498 (same rev. die)
Greek (City Coinage)
(45) Achaemenid Empire
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An AR Siglos struck 455-420? BC in Sardis
Obverse: hero or king holding bow and dagger right

Reverse: incuse square; crescent countermark

Diameter: 15 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 5.15 g
times of Artaxerxes I and Dareios II
Carradice type IV (early) A
Eastern (Achaemenid Empire)
(46) Pantikapaion
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An AR Diobol struck c. 450-438/7 BC in Pantikapaion
Obverse: lion head facing

Reverse: incuse square, swastika pattern with stellate designs in two opposite quarters

Diameter: 12 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 1.8 g
No notes for this coin
Frolova, frühe, Type VIII; Anokhin 971; MacDonald 11/1 corr. (denomination); HGC 7, 34 corr. (same)
Greek (City Coinage)
(47) Kaunos
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An AR Stater struck 450-430 BC in Kaunos
Obverse: Iris? running left holding kerykeion and wreath

Reverse: Baetyl, granulated patterns resembling birds on either side

Diameter: 20.5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 11.7 g
ex CNG 2002 ex Forum Ancient Coins ex Aurea numismatika 2011
Dewing 2359 (same dies); Konuk, "The Early Coinage of Kaunos" in Studies Price 94 (O36/R35); Troxell, "Winged Carians" in Essays Thompson p. 260, 26
Greek (City Coinage)
(48) Kolophon
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An AR Hemiobol struck 450-410 BC in Kolophon
Obverse: head of Apollo facing

Reverse: incuse square; HM

Diameter: 8 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.47 g
No notes for this coin
Milne, Colophon 3; SNG Kayhan 355; SNG Copenhagen 133-4 var.
Greek (City Coinage)
(49) Apollonia Pontica
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An AR Drachm struck c. 450-404 BC in Apollonia Pontica
Obverse: facing head of Medusa

Reverse: anchor flukes up; A / crayfish

Diameter: 12.5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.9 g
No notes for this coin
SNG Cop 456; SNG BM 160, SNG Stancomb 37
Greek (City Coinage)
(50) Pharsalos
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An AR Hemidrachm struck c. 450-400 BC in Pharsalos
Obverse: helmeted head of Athena right

Reverse: head of horse right; Φ A / P Σ

Diameter: 15 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.87 g
No notes for this coin
Lavva 75 (V38/R44)
Greek (City Coinage)
(51) Kyzikos
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An AR Hemiobol struck 450-400 BC in Kyzikos
Obverse: forepart of boar left; tuna fish right

Reverse: head of lion left; star above

Diameter: 9 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.37 g
No notes for this coin
SNG Kayhan 57 ff.; SNG BnF 375; SNG Cop 49; BMC Mysia p. 35, 120; SNGvA -,
Greek (City Coinage)
(52) Mesembria
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An AR Diobol struck 450-350 BC in Mesembria
Obverse: crested Corinthian helmet facing

Reverse: wheel; M E Ϡ A

Diameter: 10 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 1.25 g
No notes for this coin
BMC 3; Sear #1673; SNGBMC 268ff, Moushmov 3974
Greek (City Coinage)
(53) Azbaal
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An AR Stater struck c. 449-425 BC in Kition
Obverse: Herakles right, wearing lion's skin, holding bow in extended left hand and club over shoulder in his right hand

Reverse: lion attacking stag, crouching right; all within incuse square; lOZBOl

Diameter: 22 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 11.1 g
No notes for this coin
Zapiti & Michaelidou 5-6; Tziambazis 17; BMC 16-8
Phoenician (Achaemenid Phoenicia)
(54) Phokian Confederation
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An AR Triobol struck c. 440-420 BC in Daulis?
Obverse: facing bull head

Reverse: head of Artemis right; Φ O K I

Diameter: 13 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.9 g
No notes for this coin
SNG Cop 99 ff.
Greek (Leagues and Federations)
(55) Athens
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An AR Tetradrachm struck 431-393 BC in Athens
Obverse: head of Athena right - almond shaped eye, crested helmet with olive leaves and floral scroll

Reverse: owl standing right, head facing, olive sprig and crescent left; AΘE

Diameter: 23.5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 17.3 g
No notes for this coin
(Type C), Sear 2526
Greek (City Coinage)
(56) Athens | Phoenician
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An AR Tetradrachm struck 431-393 BC in Athens
Obverse: head of Athena right - almond shaped eye, crested helmet with olive leaves and floral scroll

Reverse: owl standing right, head facing, olive sprig and crescent left; AΘE - Phoenician contermark bēth yōdh

Diameter: 23 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 16.5 g
Most likely three cuts over the owl are not test cuts but intentional destruction of a symbol of unpopular Athens by Phoenicians.
(Type C), Sear 2526
Greek (City Coinage)
(57) Athens
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An AR Tetradrachm struck 431-393 BC in Athens
Obverse: head of Athena right - almond shaped eye, crested helmet with olive leaves and floral scroll

Reverse: owl standing right, head facing, olive sprig and crescent left; AΘE

Diameter: 24 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 17.2 g
No notes for this coin
(Type C), Sear 2526
Greek (City Coinage)
(58) Athens
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An AR Drachm struck 431-393 BC in Athens
Obverse: head of Athena right - almond shaped eye, crested helmet with olive leaves and floral scroll

Reverse: owl standing right, head facing, olive sprig and crescent left; AΘE

Diameter: 14.5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.9 g
No notes for this coin
SNG Cop 41; Kroll 10; Dewing 1601; Svoronos pl. 11, 20; HGC 4 1631
Greek (City Coinage)
(59) Kroton
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An AR Triobol struck c. 430-420 BC in Kroton
Obverse: Pegasos left; Ϙ

Reverse: Tripod with 3 ring handles and legs ending in lion’s paws; ϘPO

Diameter: 11 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 1.5 g
Kroton had the rather curious practice of issuing fractions bearing reverse types taken from the coinage of other cities: such as, among others, the Pegasus of Corinth (complete with the letter koppa below), the hare of Messana and the octopus of Syracuse.
HN Italy 2127, SNG Cop 1788
Greek (City Coinage)
(60) Soloi
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An AR Hemiobol struck 430-390 BC in Soloi
Obverse: helmeted head of Athena or Amazon left

Reverse: grape

Diameter: 5.5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.3 g
No notes for this coin
SNG France 154-157
Greek (City Coinage)
(61) Thebes
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An AR Hemidrachm struck 426-395 BC in Thebes
Obverse: Boeotian shield

Reverse: Kantharos; club above; Θ_EB

Diameter: 12 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.52 g
No notes for this coin
BMC 64; SNG Cop. 289
Greek (City Coinage)
(62) Akragas
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An AE Tetras struck 425-406 BC in Akragas
Obverse: eagle right, tearing at hare AKP_A

Reverse: Crab, crayfish left below •••

Diameter: 21 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 9.21 g
No notes for this coin
SNG COP. 75 var. SNG München 132
Greek (City Coinage)
(63) Pelinna
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An AE Chalkous struck c. 425-350 BC in Pelinna
Obverse: Horseman left, striking at fallen Hoplite with javelin

Reverse: Warrior advancing left, holding shield ΠEΛINNA_ION

Diameter: 14 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.05 g
No notes for this coin
Rogers 427; BCD Thessaly 520; SNG Copenhagen 186-7 var
Greek (City Coinage)
(64) Phasis?
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An AR Hemidrachm struck c. 425-325 BC in Phasis?
Obverse: Archaic female head (Artemis Dali) right

Reverse: Head of bull right

Diameter: 11 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.1 g
No notes for this coin
SNG BM 1013-1018; Hind 7; HGC 7, 215
Greek (Other Greek)
(65) Neapolis (Macedonia)
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An AR Hemidrachm struck c. 424-350 BC in Neapolis (Macedonia)
Obverse: facing head of Medusa (Gorgoneion), tongue protruding

Reverse: diademed female head right; NEOΠ

Diameter: 13 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2 g
No notes for this coin
SNG ANS 430-454; SNG Cop 227; SNG Berry 41; BMC Macedonia p.85, 17; SGCV I 1417
Greek (City Coinage)
(66) Himera
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An AE Hemilitron struck 420-409 BC in Himera
Obverse: head of nymph left; •••••• / IM_E

Reverse: wreath, 6 • inside

Diameter: 14.5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.85 g
No notes for this coin
SNG Cop 320; Calciati I p. 43, 35; SGCV I 1110; SNG ANS 186
Greek (City Coinage)
(67) Kamarina
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An AE Onkia struck 420-405 BC in Kamarina
Obverse: Gorgoneion with smooth neat hair tied with ribbon protruding tongue

Reverse: owl standing left, head facing, lizard in right talon; KAMA / B / •

Diameter: 12.5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 1.4 g
No notes for this coin
Calciati vol III, p. 53, 15; SGCV I 1064 var; Jenkins 186; CNS III, 13.
Greek (City Coinage)
(68) Pharkadon
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An AR Hemidrachm struck c. 420-400 BC in Pharkadon
Obverse: Thessalos, wearing petasos and chalmys, right restraining bull with cord around bull's forehead held in both hands

Reverse: forepart of galloping horse right; Φ_A_P_K / AΔ_O

Diameter: 15 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.8 g
No notes for this coin
BCD Thessaly II 603; BMC Thessaly p. 42, 1; SNG Cop 209; HGC 4 292
Greek (City Coinage)
(69) Antandros
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An AR Diobol struck c. 420-400 BC in Antandros
Obverse: female head right (Artemis Astyrene?)

Reverse: lion head right within incuse square; ANTAN

Diameter: 9.5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 1 g
No notes for this coin
Cf. SNG von Aulock 7582 (later type without incuse); SNG München -; SNG Ashmolean -; cf. SNG Tübingen 2555 (same); cf. Klein 298 (same); Traité II -; CNG E-369, lot 113; Gitbud & Naumann 24, lot 170.
Greek (City Coinage)
(70) Caria | Mylasa?
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An AR Tetartemorion struck 420-390 BC in Mylasa?
Obverse: forepart of lion right

Reverse: pigeon left, pellet above and below

Diameter: 6 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.25 g
No notes for this coin
SNG Kayhan 947
Greek (City Coinage)
(71) Thasos
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An AR Tritartemorion struck 411-404 BC in Thasos
Obverse: head of Satyr left

Reverse: two dolphins - upper to the left, lower to the right; ΘAΣI

Diameter: 8 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.5 g
No notes for this coin
SNG Cop 1033-1034; Le Rider 12; HGC 340; Beoetia p. 52. Traité III, 347. BCD Boiotia 280
Greek (City Coinage)
(72) Thasos
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An AR Trihemiobol struck c. 411-350 BC in Thasos
Obverse: Satyr holding kantharos, kneeling left; grasshopper left

Reverse: amphora; ΘAΣ_IΩN

Diameter: 10 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.73 g
No notes for this coin
Vgl. Lanz: Auktion 82 (24.11.1997) Nr. 110; Auction 114 (26.05.2003) Nr. 80
Greek (City Coinage)
(73) Neandreia
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An AR Obol struck c. 410-370 BC in Neandreia
Obverse: laureate head of Apollo right

Reverse: ram right; NEA / N

Diameter: 8 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.5 g
No notes for this coin
SNG Cop 446; SNGvA 7628; SNG Munchen 293; SNG Kayhan 77; SNG Ashmolean 1170; Klein 318
Greek (City Coinage)
(74) Hyria (Campania)
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An AR Didrachm struck c. 405-400 BC in Hyria (Campania)
Obverse: head of Hera Lakinia facing slightly right, wearing necklace and polos ornamented with palmette between the foreparts of two griffins

Reverse: man-faced bull walking right YPINA (retrograde)

Diameter: 21 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 6.9 g

From the H.J. Müller collection.

Rutter 134; Historia Numorum Italy 540
Greek (Other Greek)
(75) Syracuse
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An AE Litra struck 405-367 BC in Syracuse
Obverse: helmeted head of Athena left; ΣYPA

Reverse: Hippocamp left

Diameter: 19.5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 7.28 g
rule of Dionysios I
Calciati vol. II, p. 89, 45
Greek (City of Syracuse)
(76) Pherai
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An AE unit struck c. 404-369 BC in Pherai
Obverse: head of Nymph Hypereia right, wearing wreath

Reverse: head of lion right, spouring water from mouth; ΦEPAI

Diameter: 11.5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 1.55 g
No notes for this coin
Rogers 513; SNG Copenhagen 241
Greek (City Coinage)
(77) Motya
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An AR Litra struck c. 400-397 BC in Motya
Obverse: head of Nymph facing, slightly right, wearing necklace

Reverse: crab, fish above; 'alep waw tet mem

Diameter: 11.5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.7 g
No notes for this coin
Jenkins, Punic, pl. 23, 6; Campana 24a; HGC 2, 937
Phoenician (Carthaginian Empire)
(78) Tissaphernes
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An AE unit struck c. 400-395 BC in Astyra
Obverse: head of Tissaphernes* right, short beard; TIΣΣA

Reverse: facing cult statue of Artemis Astyra wearing kalathos, club right; AΣTYPH

Diameter: 11 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 1.3 g
*This is probably the oldest coin depicting living person.
SNG BnF 124A, Klein 253, Winzer 6.2
Eastern (Lydian Satrapy)
(79) Amisos
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An AR Siglos struck c. 400-360 BC in Amisos
Obverse: turreted head of Hera-Tyche left wearing stephanos ornamented with palmettes and annulets, triple-drop earrings and pearl necklace

Reverse: owl standing facing on shield, grain ear left; AΦ_PO/ ΠEIPA

Diameter: 18 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 5.7 g
Aphro... magistrate
SNG BM Black Sea 1059, SNG Stancomb 660, SNG Cop 122, Rec Gén 27, McClean 7351, HGC 7 229
Greek (City Coinage)
(80) Thourioi
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An AR Nomos struck c. 400-350 BC in Thourioi
Obverse: head of Athena right wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with Skylla; E

Reverse: bull butting right; fish swimming right below; ΘOYPIΩN

Diameter: 21 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 7.7 g
No notes for this coin
HN Italy 1783; cf. SNG ANS 1015
Greek (City Coinage)
(81) Cherronesos (Thrace)
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An AR Hemidrachm struck 400-350 BC in Cherronesos (Thrace)
Obverse: forepart of lion right, head turned back

Reverse: quatripartite incuse square, grain ear in one section, X· in other

Diameter: 12 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.25 g
No notes for this coin
McClean 4103 var (dot over E)
Greek (Leagues and Federations)
(82) Skotussa
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An AR Hemiobol struck c. 400-350 BC in Skotussa
Obverse: head of Herakles right wearing lion's skin

Reverse: forepart of bridled horse right; ϟ_KO

Diameter: 8 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.5 g
No notes for this coin
BCD Thessaly II 742; SNG Alpha Bank 266
Greek (City Coinage)
(83) Cilicia | Tarsos?
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An AR Tetartemorion struck 400-350 BC in Tarsos?
Obverse: king with bow and dagger right

Reverse: head of Hermes left, wearing petasos

Diameter: 4.5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.2 g
uncertain satrap ex Lanz 151-512, ex Pecunem 23-447
Troxell & Kagan –; SNG France –; SNG Levante –; cf. CNG EA, 295, 263., Helios Numismatik, Auktion 5, 25. Juni 2010, Nr. 110.
Eastern (Cilician Satrapy)
(84) Carthage
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An AE unit struck c. 400-350 BC in Carthage
Obverse: Head of Tanit left wearing wreath

Reverse: Horse galloping right

Diameter: 15.5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 6 g
No notes for this coin
MAA 15; SNG Copenhagen (Africa) 96
Phoenician (Carthaginian Empire)
(85) Maroneia
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An AE unit struck c. 400-350 BC in Maroneia
Obverse: prancing horse right; (ΠNK)

Reverse: grape arbor in square MAPΩNITΩN (YΓ)

Diameter: 15.5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.67 g
No notes for this coin
BMC Thrace p. 129, 66; SGCV I 1636
Greek (City Coinage)
(86) Phalanna
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An AE unit struck c. 400-344 BC in Phalanna
Obverse: head of Apollo right

Reverse: head of Nymph Phalanna right, hair in sakkos ΦAΛANNAIΩN

Diameter: 19.5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 6.6 g
No notes for this coin
SNG Cop 203 ff.; BMC Thessaly p. 41, 4 ff.
Greek (City Coinage)
(87) Halikarnassos
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An AR Hemiobol struck c. 400-340 BC in Halikarnassos
Obverse: head of ram right

Reverse: head of young male right, ?

Diameter: 6 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.3 g
No notes for this coin
SNG Helsinki 873; SNG Kayhan 996, SNG Keckmann 868.
Greek (City Coinage)
(88) Eryx
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An AE unit struck 400-340 BC in Eryx
Obverse: head of Tanit left

Reverse: horse right; Mem

Diameter: 9.5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 1.45 g
No notes for this coin
CNS I S.287.22; HGC 30
Phoenician (Carthaginian Empire)
(89) Thourioi
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An AR Double Nomos | Distater struck c. 400-300 BC in Thourioi
Obverse: head of Athena right wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with Skylla

Reverse: bull butting right; 2 fish right in exergue ΘOYPIΩN / EYΦA

Diameter: 29.5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 15.5 g
No notes for this coin
SNG COP. 1430
Greek (City Coinage)
(90) Apollonia Pontica
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An AR Diobol struck 400-300 BC in Apollonia Pontica
Obverse: laureate head of Apollo facing

Reverse: anchor upside down; crayfish right; A

Diameter: 10 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 1.2 g
No notes for this coin
Topalov Apollonia p. 386, 4; SNG BM 167; SNG Stancomb 41; SNG Cop 459
Greek (City Coinage)
(91) Side
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An AR Obol struck c. 400-300 BC in Side
Obverse: lion head right

Reverse: helmeted head of Athena right

Diameter: 9 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.7 g
No notes for this coin
Atlan, Side 77 (dies Exemplar); SNG BN 738; SNG von Aulock 4774
Greek (City Coinage)
(92) Laranda
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An AR Obol struck c. 400-300 BC in Laranda
Obverse: Baal seated left, stalk of grain and bunch of grapes in right hand, long scepter vertical behind in left hand

Reverse: wolf forepart right, crescent above

Diameter: 10 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.6 g
No notes for this coin
SNG BnF 450 (uncertain Cilicia), SNG Levante 225 (uncertain Cilicia)
Greek (City Coinage)
(93) Solus
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An AE Tetras struck c. 400-300 BC in Solus
Obverse: head of Athena half left wearing Corinthian helmet

Reverse: warrior kneeling right, drawing bow, shooting arrow; KPRA (kapara meaning village)

Diameter: 15 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.3 g
No notes for this coin
cf. Calciati I pg. 310, 5 (same); SNG ANS 743.
Phoenician (Carthaginian Empire)
(94) Sardis
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An AE unit struck c. 400-300 BC in Sardis
Obverse: head of Dionysos left wearing ivy-wreath

Reverse: kantharos; 8_3 (F_S in lydian alphabet)*

Diameter: 11 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.1 g
8_3 = F_S in lydian alphabet which stands for Sfard - lydian name of Sardis
Vögtli, Pergamon 524; CNG E-248, lot 119 (Syros)
Greek (City Coinage)
(95) Plakia
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An AE unit struck c. 400-300 BC in Plakia
Obverse: turreted head of Cybele right

Reverse: lion right, devouring prey, grain-ear below; ΠΛAKIA

Diameter: 11 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 1.9 g
No notes for this coin
SNG BnF 2378 ff, SNG Cop 545; SNGvA 1432; BMC Mysia p. 174, 5
Greek (City Coinage)
(96) Larissa Phrikonis
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An AE unit struck c. 400-300 BC in Larissa Phrikonis
Obverse: horned female head of river-god facing slightly right

Reverse: head of Apollo right; Λ_A

Diameter: 10 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 1.2 g
No notes for this coin
SNG München 565, SNG Cop 212, BMC Troas -
Greek (City Coinage)
(97) Phlius
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An AE unit struck c. 400-300 BC in Phlius
Obverse: bull butting left

Reverse: monogram :Φ:

Diameter: 10 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 1.1 g
No notes for this coin
SGCV I 2758; BMC 34, 13.
Greek (City Coinage)
(98) Autokane
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An AE unit struck c. 400-300 BC in Autokane
Obverse: laureate head of Apollo right

Reverse: diademed head of Nymph right; AYTOKANA

Diameter: 8 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.7 g
No notes for this coin
SNG Cop. 26
Greek (City Coinage)
(99) Kyzikos
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An AE unit struck c. 400-300 BC in Kyzikos
Obverse: laureate head of Apollo left

Reverse: amphora, tuna fish right below; KY_ZI

Diameter: 8 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.5 g
No notes for this coin
SNG BnF 411, SNG Cop 57, SNGvA 7351, BMC Mysia -,
Greek (City Coinage)
(100) warring states
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An AE 30 shu struck 400-220 BC in Xiadu
Obverse: Ming (bright) or Yi

Reverse: ?

Diameter: 134 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 16.3 g
No notes for this coin
No references provided for this coin
Chinese
(101) Lampsakos
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An AR Diobol struck 400-200 BC in Lampsakos </