Kyme or Cyme was an Aeolian city in Aeolis close to the kingdom of Lydia. The colony was founded after the Trojan War by Greeks from Locris.
Cyme prospered and developed into a regional metropolis and founded about thirty towns and settlements in Aeolis. The Cymeans were later ridiculed as a people who had for three hundred years lived on the coast and not once exacted harbor taxes on ships making port.
The Aeolians regarded Cyme as the largest and most important of their twelve cities, which were located on the coastline of Asia Minor.
Cyme prospered and developed into a regional metropolis and founded about thirty towns and settlements in Aeolis. The Cymeans were later ridiculed as a people who had for three hundred years lived on the coast and not once exacted harbor taxes on ships making port.
The Aeolians regarded Cyme as the largest and most important of their twelve cities, which were located on the coastline of Asia Minor.
Modern location: Nemrut Limani, Turkey
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Kyme
Obverse: head of eagle left, KY
Reverse: quadripartite incuse square
Diameter:
6 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.42 g
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.42 g
No notes for this coin
SNG Cop 31; Klein 333.
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Kyme
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Hemiobol
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Tetartemorion
struck 480-450 BC
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Kyme
Obverse: head of eagle left; KY
Reverse: quadripartite incuse square
Diameter:
5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.3 g
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.3 g
No notes for this coin
SNG Cop 31; Klein 333. (hemiobol)
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Kyme
Obverse: head of Amazon Kyme right
Reverse: forepart of horse right, vase behind KY ΛEΣBIOΣ
Diameter:
11 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 1.7 g
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 1.7 g
No notes for this coin
SNG Copenhagen 90; BMC Aeolis p. 109, 57
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Kyme
Obverse: KY / bridled horse forepart right
Reverse: ZΩI/ΛOΣ / bow and quiver tied together
Diameter:
12.7 mm
Die Orientation: 0 H
Weight: 1.68 g
Die Orientation: 0 H
Weight: 1.68 g
Kyme was conquered by Croesus, king of Lydia, and ruled successively by the Persians, Macedonians, Seleucids, and Pergamenes. Attalus III, the last king of Pergamum, bequeathed Aeolis to Rome in 133 B.C. Shortly afterward, it was made part of the Roman province of Asia. Aeolis was under Byzantine rule until the early 15th century, when the Ottoman Turks occupied the area.
Magistrate Zoilos
SNG Cop 109; BMC Troas p. 112, 86; SNG Munchen 511; SNGvA 1643
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Kyme
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Obverse: Forepart of horse right
Reverse: Skyphos, monogram in field
Diameter:
16 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.81 g
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.81 g
No notes for this coin
BMC 45
