GREECE ANCIENT Coins
From Roman As to Greek Assarion: Provincial Coin
Illustrated Specimen Details: Bronze Assarion of the Bosporan Kingdom Example Specimen: Assarion, struck during the period from 39 to 45 AD (Bosporan Kingdom) Authority & Imagery: This coin was issued under the authority of…
Trihemitetartemorion: Longest Ancient Coin Name
Illustrated Specimen Details: Trihemitetartemorion Example Specimen: Trihemitetartemorion, 5th century BC (Ephesus, Ionia) Authority & Heraldry: This fractional silver coin originates from the Ionian city of Ephesus. The ob…
Ancient Greek Hemiobol: Tiny 1/2 Obol Silver Currency
Illustrated Specimen Details: Hemiobol Example Specimen: Hemiobol, 480-400 BC (Cyzicus, Ancient Greece) Authority & Identification: This ancient silver coin originates from Cyzicus (Kyzikos), an influential Greek town locat…
Litra: Ancient Sicilian Coin Denomination
Illustrated Specimen Details: Bronze Litra Example Specimen: Litra, 405-367 BC (Syracuse, Sicily) Authority & Identification: This ancient bronze coin was issued in Syracuse, one of the most influential Greek settlements in…
Roman Dupondius: The "Double Pound" Coin Explained
Illustrated Specimen Details: Copper Dupondius of Tyras Example Specimen: Dupondius, 211-217 AD (Tyras / Roman Empire) Authority & Identification: This coin was issued by the city of Tyras, an ancient Greek settlement on th…
Olbia Dolphin Coins: Ancient Bronze Proto-Money
Illustrated Specimen Details: Olbia Cast AE Dolphin Example Specimen: Olbia Cast AE Dolphin, 500-400 BC (Greek city-state Olbia) Iconography & Origin: This remarkable proto-coin is cast in bronze in the shape of a stylized …
Chalkon Coin: Ancient Copper Currency of Greece
Illustrated Specimen Details: Copper Chalkon (Ancient Olbia) Example Specimen: Chalkon (χαλκον), 380 — 360 BC — City-state Olbia (Northern Black Sea Coast) Design & Symbols: The obverse of this ancient coin depicts the head…
Wheel Money of Histria: Ancient Bronze Coin of Istros
Illustrated Specimen Details: Bronze Wheel Money Example Specimen: Wheel coin, 500-400 BC Design Details: This archaic specimen features the Greek letters ΙΣΤ (abbreviation for IST ROS) on the obverse. The reverse displays a d…
Drachm: coin from Kingdom of Cappadocia
Illustrated Specimen Details: Drachm Example Specimen: Ariobarzanes I Philoromaios (95-63 BC) The coin featured here is a silver drachm from the Kingdom of Cappadocia, minted during the long and turbulent reign of Ariobarzanes …
Celtic Tetradrachm: Ancient Silver Coins and Abstraction
Illustrated Specimen Details: Celtic Tetradrachm Example Specimen: Celtic Tetradrachm, Carpathian Region (200-100 BC) The coin shown above is an ancient silver tetradrachm issued by Celtic tribes in Central and Eastern Europe, p…
Dichalkon: Ancient Greek Bronze Coin of Olbia
Illustrated Specimen Details: Dichalkon Example Specimen: City-state Olbia, 360-350 BC The coin shown above is a bronze dichalkon issued by the ancient Greek city-state of Olbia (located near the modern village of Parutyne, Uk…
Hemidrachm: Silver coin of Lycia and Ancient Greece
Illustrated Specimen Details: Hemidrachm Example Specimen: Hemidrachm, 30-27 BC — City of Cragus (Lycian League, Ancient Greece) This silver hemidrachm was struck by the Lycian League , a powerful federation of city-states in Ly…
Obol Coin: Ancient Greek Specimen, History & Charon
Illustrated Specimen Details: Ancient Greek Obol Example Specimen: Obol, 324-323 BC — City of Laranda (Lycaonia, Ancient Greece) This silver obol was struck in Laranda (modern-day Karaman, Turkey), a strategic city in Lycaonia. …
Borysthenes: coin of ancient Greek city-state Olbia
BORYSTHENES: COIN OF OLBIA (MODERN UKRAINE) Borysthenes, 3nd century BC: Greek city-state Olbia Pontic Olbia or Olbia (Ancient Greek "Ὀλβία Ποντική"; Ukrainian "Ольвія") — an ancient Greek city-state, founded by natives of Milet…
Tetrassarion: coin of Olbia (Roman province Lower Moesia)
TETRASSARION: COIN OF OLBIA (MODERN UKRAINE) Tetrassarion, 1st century: Olbia (dependence on the Roman Empire) Ancient coin of the Greek colony of Olbia (modern Mykolaiv region, southern Ukraine) during the time when those territories were part of …
Tetrachalkon: coin of Laodikeia (Phrygia)
TETRACHALKON: COIN OF LAODIKEIA Tetrachalkon, 133-67 BC: Laodikeia (Phrygia) Phrygia — kingdom in the west-central part of Anatolia (now Asian Turkey). Historically, the coins of this distinctive highly developed nation are referred by modern resea…
Stater: coin of Bosporan Kingdom (Panticapaeum)
STATER: COIN OF BOSPORUS Stater, 322: Bosporan Kingdom Bosporan Kingdom (Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus) — an ancient Greco-Scythian state located in eastern Crimea and the Taman Peninsula on the shores of the present-day Strait of Kerch. The 1s…
Pentonkion: coin of Messina (Sicily, Ancient Greece)
PENTONKION: COIN OF MESSINA (SICILY) Pentonkion, 3rd century BC: Messina (Sicily, Ancient Greece) The Mamertines (Latin "Mamertini") were mercenaries of Italian origin who had been hired by Agathocles (Tyrant of Syracuse and self-proclaim…
Tetradrachm: coin of Kushan Empire (Ancient India)
TETRADRACHM: COIN OF KUSHAN EMPIRE (INDIA) Tetradrachm, 155-187: Kushan Empire (India) Ruler: Huvishka — emperor of the Kushan Empire. MAO : the name of the moon god is mistakenly given, but another deity is depicted (different sources give conflic…