From the eighth century BC, the Greeks were organised into various independent city-states, known as poleis (singular polis), which spanned the entire Mediterranean region and the Black Sea. Philip of Macedon united most of the Greek mainland in the fourth century BC, with his son Alexander the Great rapidly conquering much of the ancient world, spreading Greek culture and science from the eastern Mediterranean to India.
This (geographical) cartegory covers the regions of Cental Greece, Crete, the Cyclades, Epirus, Euboea, the Peloponnese, and Thessaly. It is bordered to the east by Asia Minor, to the west by Italia, and to the north by the Balkans, including Macedonia and Thrace.
Eighty percent of Greece consists of mountains or hills, making the country one of the most mountainous in Europe. Mount Olympus, the mythical abode of the Greek Gods, culminates at Mytikas peak 2,918 metres.
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Reverse: fish under (AX) monogram all within wreath; (APT) left / ΔY up
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.2 g
Reverse: (AX) monogram, thunderbolt below, all within wreath; ΞB / K_A / M
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.4 g
Reverse: (AX) monogram within wreath; A_N / CΩ
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.4 g
Reverse: lyre above (AX) monogram, all within wreath; ΔΩ_PO
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.3 g
Reverse: (AX) monogram, trident below, all within wreath; A / Π_Λ / (YE)
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2 g
Reverse: incuse square ( “Union Jack” pattern)
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 12 g
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Reverse: Square incuse with skew pattern.
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 11.7 g
Reverse: Large square "skew pattern" incuse
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 12.55 g
Reverse: forepart of horse right; AΛEΞAN / ΔPOY
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.5 g
Reverse: AΛEXANΔΡOY - Zeus seated left, holding eagle and sceptre. N in left field. Seleukid anchor countermark in right field.
Die Orientation: 11 H
Weight: 15.6 g
Reverse: Head of Athena, strigel behind, A before. Die flaw before Athena's face
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 8.06 g
Reverse: Reverse inscription C L I COR Reverse design Melikertes-Palaimon standing, r., on dolphin, r., raising arm
Die Orientation: 9 H
Weight: 7.25 g
Reverse: lyre; A_Π
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 1.3 g
Reverse: big A, trident below; Δ _ A / MAP
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.03 g
Reverse: owl standing right, head facing, olive sprig and crescent left; AΘE
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 17.3 g
Reverse: Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent behind; all within incuse square
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 17.12 g
Reverse: ΑΘΕ / Owl standing right, head facing, to the left an olive sprig and crescent
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 16.63 g
Reverse: Athena Parthenos facing, head left, holding Nike with wreath. Left hand resting on shield set on ground holding spear; AΘHNA_IΩN
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 6.4 g
Reverse: mirror image of acropolis of Athens from northwest - Panathenaic way lead upward to the Propylaia at summit, large statue of Athena Promachos standing right, Erechtheion to right; in center of rock, niche representing the Cave of Pan with his statue
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 5.4 g
Reverse: owl standing right, head facing, olive sprig and crescent left; AΘE
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.9 g
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Reverse: Owl standing to right with head facing, olive sprig and crescent behind, ΑΘΕ before; all within incuse square
Die Orientation: 7 H
Weight: 17.24 g
Reverse: owl standing right, head facing, olive sprig and crescent left; AΘE
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 17.2 g
Reverse: Owl standing on overturned amphora with legend to the left and to the right. H on amphora. ME below
Die Orientation: 0 H
Weight: 16.67 g
“New Style". Magistrates Polemon, Alketes and Timon.
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Reverse: Owl standing right, head facing, AOE to right in incuse square
Die Orientation: 0 H
Weight: 17.21 g
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Reverse: AΘE / Owl standing right, head facing, olive sprig and crescent to left; all within incuse square
Die Orientation: 0 H
Weight: 17.05 g
Intermediate Style Owl
Reverse: AΘE / Owl standing right, head facing; to left, olive sprig and crescent; all within incuse square
Die Orientation: 0 H
Weight: 17.17 g
Reverse: Owl standing right, head facing, olive twig and crescent behind, A-Θ-E before
Die Orientation: 0 H
Weight: 16.51 g
Reverse: Owl standing to right with head facing, olive sprig and crescent behind, ΑΘΕ before; all within incuse square
Die Orientation: 7 H
Weight: 17.21 g
Near Mint State; lustrous metal with beautiful light cabinet tone. Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Live Auction 1, 25 July 2018, lot 78.
Reverse: A-Θ-E - Owl standing right, head facing, olive twig and crescent behind, A-Θ-E before. Test cut on the owl and bankers mark in front.
Die Orientation: 3 H
Weight: 15.8 g
Reverse: owl standing right, head facing, olive sprig and crescent left; AΘE - Phoenician contermark bēth yōdh
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 16.5 g
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Reverse: Poseidon standing left, holding trident
Die Orientation: 6 H
Weight: 3.98 g
Reverse: BOIWTWN (upward on left), ornamented trident head upward, straight crossbar, dolphin upward on right, no control symbol
Die Orientation: 0 H
Weight: 1.92 g
Reverse: BOIWTWN (upward on left), ornamented trident head upward, straight crossbar, dolphin upward on right, no control symbol
Die Orientation: 0 H
Weight: 2.1 g
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Reverse: GER CAESAR PVLCHRO III VARIO IIVIR, Bare head of Germanicus facing right
Die Orientation: 12 H
Weight: 6.67 g
Reverse: eagle holding snake; ΛAX
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.46 g
Reverse: aquila on thunderbolt right, signum on each side; COL·_·A·A·_PATR / X_XII
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 10.3 g
Reverse: Helmeted head of Athena right; ithyphallic herm and N behind
Die Orientation: 11 H
Weight: 8.57 g
Reverse: Artemis standing left, leaning on scepter; EKKA_PPEI
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 1.9 g
Reverse: Tripod in wreath, AΠEI-PΩTAN on either side
Die Orientation: 0 H
Weight: 25 g
Reverse: Europa seated right on bull running left, lifting her drapery; all within wreath
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 5.8 g
Reverse: Dioscuri on horses right, holding spear and reins; ΛΑΚΕΔΑΙΜΟΝΙΩΝ
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 9.6 g
Reverse: Phrixos on ram right, cloak flying; AΛE_Ω_N
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2 g
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Reverse: Nymph Histiaia seated right on stern of galley, holding stylis; ornate apluster; IΣTI_AIEΩN, trident below
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.3 g
Reverse: Hermes facing, holding caduceus and purse; ΦIAΛEΩN
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 4 g
Reverse: head of Aphrodite or nymph Peirene left; K
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 1.83 g
Reverse: head of Athena wearing Corinthian helmet and necklace right within incuse square
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 7.9 g
Reverse: Pegasos; below prow right (KP) (AV) (KP)
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 4.7 g
Reverse: Bull butting right; trident above; IΠ / KPAN
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.74 g
Reverse: star in crescent; K_Y / ΛY
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.3 g
Reverse: horse grazing right; ΛΑΡΙΣ / ΑΙΩΝ
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Weight: 5.5 g
Reverse: horse grazing right; ΛΑΡΙΣ / ΑΙΩΝ
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 4.5 g
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Reverse: ΛAPI–ΣAIΩN, mare and her foal standing right
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 5.56 g
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Reverse: head of Athena left wearing Corinthian helmet; ΛEYKA_ΔIΩN / Π
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 8.55 g
Reverse: Ajax the Lesser (son of Oileus) nude but for crested Corinthian helmet advancing right in fighting attitude holding short sword and shield on left arm ornamented inside with coiled snake (control symbol), helmet crest below; OΠONTIΩN
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.7 g
Reverse: Club of Heracles at center, Greek text above (ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΩΝ) and below (ΠΡΩΤΗΣ) club along with three monograms surrounded by oak wreath, keraunos left
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 16.9 g
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Reverse: Centaur holding branch right, owl below; MAΓNHTΩN
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 8.75 g
Reverse: LEG V
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.73 g
Reverse: M OPPIVS CAPITO PRO PR PRAEF CLASS F C - Galley right, below A.
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.69 g
"M. Oppius Capito was Antony’s senior naval officer, stationed at the main naval base at Piraeus. His coins are found distributed around central Greece, and were most likely struck at Piraeus. His coins are found in two series, a heavy and a light and it has been suggested that some were struck at Tarentum where part of Antony’s fleet was based during the joint action against Sextus Pompey in 37-36 BC"
"The coin illustrated here is an as, marked A, with jugate portraits of Antony and Octavia on the obverse, a galley under sail on the reverse. It falls into the "light" series, perhaps issued a year after the first release of the coins, on a lighter standard, in the name of Antony and Oppius Capito. Although this experimental coinage was short-lived and very rare today, it is interesting to note that the great currency reform started by Octavian, after he had taken the name Augustus and become the first Emperor of Rome, resulted in a bronze coinage using exactly the same denominations as Anthony's fleet issues."
Provenance: Private purchase (August 2017).
Reverse: legionary aquila between two standards, LEG X?
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3 g
moving mint in Greece (maybe Patrae?)
Reverse: legionary aquila between two standards, LEG_II ?
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.6 g
moving mint in Greece (maybe Patrae?)
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Reverse: Aquila (eagle) between two standards; around, LEG XVII CLASSICAE
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.27 g
Quality VF-F
Reverse: M • OPPIVS • CAPITIO • P[R) • PR • PRAEF • CLASS • F • C • - Mark Antony and Octavia in quadriga of hippocamps; in l. field, HS and below, Δ and astragalos.
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 30.16 g
Reverse: M•OPPIVS•CAPITO•PRO•PR•PRAEF•CLASS•F•C - Three galleys under sail to right. Γ (Gamma) and Triskeles below.
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 25.78 g
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Reverse: LEG V; Legionary eagle between two standards
Die Orientation: 6 H
Weight: 3.7 g
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Reverse: ANTONIVS/AVG • IMP • III in two lines.
Die Orientation: 5 H
Weight: 3.84 g
"The carefully concealed letter "P" behind the ear of Antony's portrait represents the only known example of an artist's signature on a Roman Republican coin. The letter went unnoticed by numismatists for centuries before it was recognized in the early decades of the twentieth century."
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Reverse: M OPPIVS CAPITO PRO PR PRAEF CLASS F C - Galley right; A below.
Die Orientation: 11 H
Weight: 6.69 g
Reverse: naked athlete advancing left holding racing torch and palm branch; Melikertes-Palaimon lying on dolphin left; behind pine-tree; C L I COR
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 10.6 g
Reverse: KOINON ΘECCAΛWN, Athena Itonia advacing right with javelin and shield
Die Orientation: 6 H
Weight: 8.58 g
Reverse: Bee upwards, wings outstretched, M - [E] above, Λ - I below
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.1 g
Reverse: head of the river-god Achelous right; OINIAΔAN, (APK)
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 5.97 g
Reverse: eagle right; olive leaf right; F _ A
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.65 g
Reverse: legend within wreath; FA / ΛEI / ΩN
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.9 g
Reverse: goat right, star to the right; ΠA // PI
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.4 g
Reverse: Warrior advancing left, holding shield ΠEΛINNA_ION
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.05 g
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Reverse: head of Nymph Phalanna right, hair in sakkos ΦAΛANNAIΩN
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 6.6 g
Reverse: head of Nymph right wearing sakkos; ΦΑΛΑΝΝΑΙΩΝ
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.3 g
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Reverse: ΦΑΡ-ΚΑΔO, Athena standing right, holding spear and shield; all within incuse square.
Die Orientation: 6 H
Weight: 0.87 g
Reverse: forepart of galloping horse right; Φ_A_P_K / AΔ_O
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.8 g
Reverse: head of horse right; Φ A / P Σ
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.87 g
Reverse: head of lion right, spouring water from mouth; ΦEPAI
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 1.55 g
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Reverse: monogram :Φ:
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 1.1 g
Reverse: head of Artemis right; Φ O K I
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.9 g
Reverse: laureate wreath; T
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 8.9 g
Reverse: eagle with spread wings standing on lightning, Galatian shield left, ΠΤΟΛEMAIOY ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, (ΣΩ) // (XAP), Λ between eagle's legs
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 14 g
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Reverse: Bellerophon mounted on Pegasus prancing to right, preparing to strike with his spear the Chimaera at his right. - L • CAECIL • NIGR/ C • HEIO P AM above, II VIR in exergue
Die Orientation: 9 H
Weight: 6.55 g
Reverse: Nemean lion's skin draped over club; arrow left; bow right, C·COPONIVS ·PR·S·C
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.9 g
Pompey's moving mint (Greece). Issue was probably used to pay Pompey soldiers. It mentions S·C in legend in order to pretend to be the official issue authorized by senate. Q. Sicinus struck these coins in exile in the east when he retreated with Pompey from Italy before Ceasar's invasion. Praetor C. Coponius was commander of Pompey's fleet in the easter Mediterranien. Star below Apollo may represent a comet which occured in 49 BC.
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Reverse: shield of Ajax and sword in sheath laying over; ΣA_ΛA
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.47 g
Reverse: dove flying left, •
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.79 g
Reverse: M Monogram
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.1 g
Reverse: Dove flying Left inside Olive Wreath
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 5.53 g
Reverse: Kerykeion and Herma?; ΣKI / AΘI
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.7 g
Reverse: horse forepart right; Σ_KO ΦΠA
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.2 g
Reverse: forepart of bridled horse right; ϟ_KO
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.5 g
Reverse: forepart of horse right; TA
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.9 g
Reverse: forepart of horse right within incuse square; T_A
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.1 g
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Reverse: Kantharos; club above; Θ_EB
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.52 g