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Coins from Lycia and Pamphylia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

E. S. G. Robinson
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The following list of coins bought on our journey may be of interest as showing what the currency of the districts must have been. Only Greek coins are here treated; of Roman coins it was noticed that denarii rarely occur earlier than Trajan, after whom they become increasingly common, while the copper hardly appears till the second quarter of the third century.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 34 , November 1914 , pp. 36 - 46
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1914

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1 At Kalamaki we came across what looked like the remains of a hoard of Roman Æ of Gordian III., Tranquillina, Maximinus; possibly part of the find noted by Woodward, (B.S.A. xvi. p. 135Google Scholar) at Elmaly.

2 Referred to as B.M.C Wadd., Imh.a,Imh.b, Imh.c, Imh.d, respectively. Occasional references have been given to Babelon's Trailé des Monnaies and to Macdonald's Catalogue of the Hunterian Collection (Hunter).

3 A certain number of coins (marked with an asterisk) were purchased on a subsequent journey undertaken by Mr. Ormerod alone in Pisidia and Eastern Pamphylia.

4 Unless otherwise stated all coins are Æ and all dates B.C.

5 Though these coins (with forepart of a lion) are generally assigned to Caria, they turn up not infrequently in Adalia, and I was told that they generally came from the neighbourhood of Side.

6 Cp. B.M.C. Ionia, Phocoea 80.

7 Though bought at Makri this coin, like others of its class, was said to have been found in Nisyros.

8 These little bronze coins are commonly found all over Lycia proper (Gagae and Kestep are at opposite ends of the country), thus confirming the view that Pericles became ruler of all Lycia. Small bronze coins are not found in large numbers outside the territory within which they circulate.

9 As marked in Kiepert's 1890 Map.

10 The figure of Apollo on the rev. is radiate, a feature which does not appear on the B.M.specimens.

11 On the Hunter coin the only letter to be read is Μ on the rev., but on the present specimen the Υ of ΛΥ can be read on the obv. and ΜΑ on the reverse, which destroys the attribution to Myra.

12 These coins are assigned to Selge in the British Museum Catalogue, but, as Imhoof (Imh.c, pp. 316–319) has noted, the monograms Πο οΘ, bring them in line with the contemporary silver and bronze coins of Aspendus.

13 Catalogued in the British Museum under Sciathus Thessaliae.

14 Possibly Caracalla.

15 The half of the preceding pieces?

16 This reverse type, a sandalled foot, seems otherwise quite unknown at the Pisidian Isinda, and the provenance of this specimen suggests that it may really belong to the Lycian Isinda which lay a few miles from Antiphellus, though as a rule the imperial coinage of Lycia is confined to the reign of Gordian III. No other coins are known of this city.

17 B.M.C. Phrygia, Introd. lxxxviii.

18 Where the chimaera is described as a lion.

19 Already published by Babelon, R.N. 1893, Pl. IX, No. 12, where the obv. is described as a head of Helios. Another example which I saw in the possession of M. Diamantaras of Castelloryzo shows the bearded head even more clearly than the coin here published. The type seems to be suggested by the silver of Selge, B.M.C. 35.

20 For the symbol (mallet or plectrum ?) in the exergue of rev., cp. B.M.C. Pl. XLIII. 4 (Masicytes Augustus). These two bronze coins would belong to the same period.

21 Magistrates, though rare, are not unknown in Lycia, cp. ΙΠΠΟΛΟ in the Masicytes district, B.M.C. 28.

22 B.M.C. Introd. Ixxiv.

23 Ibid. and Domaszewski, , ‘Festära der Pamphylischen Städte’ (Num. Zeit., 1911, p. 1).Google Scholar

24 The wreath which encircles the inscription has doubtless an agonistic significance.

25 Possibly Caracalla.

26 Tourneur, Victor in Revue Belge de Numismatique, 1913, pp. 415 seqq.Google Scholar

27 For this type cp. B.M.C. No. 11, but the animal bears little resemblance to a panther.

28 Keller, , Tiere des Klass. Altertums, p. 69.Google Scholar

29 Once on a coin of Cyzicus, and on a relief at Lesbos.

30 Cp. the colonial coins of Parlais, Lystra, and Iconium.