Achaemenid Kings of Persia
AR Siglos, (13×18 mm, 5.40 g)
Times of Xerxes I-Darius II, circa 475 – 420 BCE
Obverse: King in kneeling or running stance right, holding bow and spear
Reverse: Incuse punch
References: Carradice type IIIb
Time of Nehemiah, cup-bearer to Araxzerxes I (465-425 BC)
Countermark on obverse
Achaemenid Kings of Persia
AR Siglos, (13×18 mm, 5.42 g)
Times of Xerxes I-Darius II, circa 475 – 420 BCE
Obverse: King in kneeling or running stance right, holding bow and spear
Reverse: Incuse punch
References: Carradice type IIIb
Time of Nehemiah, cup-bearer to Araxzerxes I (465-425 BC)
Achaemenid Kings of Persia
AR Siglos, (13×17 mm, 5.54 g)
Times of Xerxes I-Darius II, circa 475 – 420 BCE
Obverse: King in kneeling or running stance right, holding bow and spear
Reverse: Incuse punch
References: Carradice type IIIb
Time of Nehemiah, cup-bearer to Araxzerxes I (465-425 BC)
Ephesus, Ionia in Asia Minor, 375-325 BCE
AE [11 mm, 1.25 g, 12 h]
Obverse: Female head left (maybe Artemis or city tyche)
Reverse: Ε-Φ either side of bee.
References: SNG von Aulock 1839; SNG Copenhagen 256; BMC 68
A beautiful tiny coin from the city of the Temple of Diana and site of one of the earliest Christian Churches in Asia Minor
Tarsus (Tarsos) Cilicia, 164-27 BCE
AE 17 [18 mm, 6.64 g, 6 h]
Obverse: Club within wreath, TP monogram to right
Reverse: TARΣEΩN; Zeus seated left holding Nike, crescent and star in left field
References: SG 5675, BMC13
Tarsus (Tarsos), Cilicia, circa 164-27 BCE
AE [22 mm, 6.91 g, 12 h]
Obv: Turreted tyche facing right
Rev: Sandan standing right on horned, winged animal, within a pyramidal monument surmounted by an eagle, ΤΑΡΣΕΩΝ to right, monograms to left
References: SG 5672, etc
Achaemenid Kings of Persia
AR Siglos, (14 mm, 5.57 g)
Times of Artaxerxes I-Xerxes II, circa 455-420 BCE
Obverse: King in kneeling or running stance right, holding bow and spear
Reverse: Incuse punch
References: Carradice type IV
Achaemenid Kings of Persia
AR Siglos, [16 mm, 5.27g]
Times of Xerxes I-Darius II, circa 485 – 420 BCE
Obverse: King in kneeling or running stance right, holding bow and spear
Reverse: Incuse punch
References: Carradice type IIIb
Achaemenid Kings of Persia
AR Siglos, (13×16 mm, 5.30 g)
Times of Xerxes I-Darius II, circa 485 – 420 BCE
Obverse: King in kneeling or running stance right, holding bow and spear
Reverse: Incuse punch
References: Carradice type IIIb
Sardis, Lydia in Asia Minor, after 133 BCE
AE [14 mm, 3.66 g, 6h]
Obv: head of Herakles to right, wearing a lion skin, within a circle of dots
Rev: ΣΑΡΔΘ / ΑΝΩΝ; either side of amphora, within wreath.
References: SNG Cop #469
