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Sardes, Sardis or Sardeis, capital of Lydia; located near present day Sart in Turkey
| BMC 10 | Sardes, Lydia, AE13, After 133 B.C. AE 15. 3.48 g. Head of Apollo right / SARDI-ANWN above and beneath club, all within oak wreath; LLD-like monogram to right. BMC 10; SNG Copenhagen 470. | Text | Image | |
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| BMC 17 | Sardes, Lydia, AE13, After 133 B.C. AE 13. 3.48 g. Head of Apollo right / SARDI-ANWN above and beneath club, all within oak wreath; T in A (wide) monogram above. BMC 17; cf SNG Copenhagen 470ff; cf SNG Von Aulock 3125. | Text | Image | |
| BMC 42 | Sardes, Lydia. 200-0 BC. AE 16mm; 5.5g. Head of young Dionysus right, with band across forehead, ivy wreath and long, hanging locks / SARDI-ANWN, horned panther left, head facing, holding broken spear in mouth and raised forepaw; AR monogram to left, MYOP monogram below. BMC 42; Imhoof-Blumer LS 2; SNG von Aulock 3127; SNG Copenhagen 465. | Text | Image | |
| BMC 62 | Sardes, Lydia, 65 AD., Pseudo-Autonomous Issue, Hemiassarion. Strategos Ti. Kl. Mnaseas Strategos, AE19. QEON CYNKLHTON, draped and youthful bust of Senate right / EPI TI MNACEOY CARDIANWN, Zeus standing left, holding eagle and sceptre. BMC 62-63; RPC 3008. | Text | Image | |
| BMC 65 | Lydia, Sardeis, time of Vespasian, 19mm, 3.9g. EPI FL EICIGONOU; bust of Dionysos wreathed in ivy / CARDIANWN; Zeus Lydios standing left with sceptre and raven, torch to left. SNG Leypold 1194; SNG von Aulock 3138; BMC 65; SNG München 3137. | Text | Image | |
| BMC 79 | Sardes, Lydia, 2nd Century A.D., AE 21. Bare-headed, bearded bust of Herakles left / CARDIANWN, Omphale, naked but for lion's skin hanging from neck and shoulders, walking right, holding club over shoulder. BMC 79, SNG Copenhagen 509, SNG von Aulock 3140. | Text | Image | |
| BMC 85 | Lydia, Sardes, 17mm, 3.32g ZEYC LYDIOC; draped bust right / CARDIANWN; Heracles standing facing, head left, holding lion skin in left, resting club on ground in right hand. BMC 85. | Text | Image | |
| BMC 90 | Sardes, Lydia, AE 21. CARDIC, Veiled and turreted bust of Tyche of Sardes right / CARDIANWN B NEWKORWN, Cultus effigy of Kore, wearing kalathos and closely draped and adorned with necklaces, seated facing between ear of corn on her right and poppy-head on her left. BMC 90, SNG Copenhagen 513, SNG von Aulock 3141. | Text | Image | |
| BMC 92 | Lydia, Sardes, 17mm, 2.74g. CARDIC, turreted and veiled head of Tyche right / CARDIANWN B NEWKOPWN; cult statue of Kore, closely draped and wearing kalathos, facing, between ear of corn and poppy head. BMC 92. | Text | Image | |
| BMC 94 | Sardes, Lydia, pseudo-autonomous issue, AE, 3rd c. AD. 4.34 g. QEA RWMH, helmeted and draped bust of Roma right / CARDIANW N B NEWKORWN, mountain god Tmolos (?), seated left on rock, holding lagobolon and resting right hand on vine (club at side?). BMC 94. | Text | Image | |
| BMC (Magnesia) 1cf | Lydia, Sardes, AE15, 2.07g. ZEYC LYDIOC, laureate and draped bust of Zeus Lydios right / CARDIANWN, serpent around omphalos. Unpublished for Sardes, cf. BMC 1 of Magnesia, Lydia. | Text | Image | |
| CGB 87/335 | Sardes, Lydia, 188-133 BC. AE16, 5.03 gr. Head of Herakles right, wearing lionskin / SARDIANWN XENOFANTOS to left and right of Apollo, naked, standing left, holding raven on outstretched right hand and branch in lowered left. All within laurel wreath. Apparently unpublished. NISC. CGB (France) item 87/355. | Text | Image | |
| Cornell 108 | LYDIA, Sardis. Time of Gordian III, 238-244 AD. AE 42mm Medallion. MHTROPOLIC CAPDIC ACIAC LVDIAC ELLADOC A, turreted, veiled & draped bust of Persephone right / EPI AVP POVFEINOV APX A T B CAPDIANWN B NEWKORWN, Zeus seated left within Zodiac, holding Nike on outstretched right hand & long sceptre in left. ANS Museum Notes 30, Pl 38, 73. Cornell 108. | Text | Image | |
| Hunter 4 | Sardes, Lydia. 2nd-1st century BC. 4.14g; 18mm. Laureate head of young Herakles right, lionskin around neck / SARDIANWN to right of Apollo, naked, standing left, holding crow or raven on right hand and lowered laurel branch in left. Monogram in left field. SNG Cop 484-489 (monogram 18); BMC 25; SNG Munich 475; Hunter II, 463, 4. | Text | Image | |
| Mionnet 662 | Lydia, Sardes, AE15, Automous issue. CARDI-ANWN, wreathed head of Dionysos right / CTRA IO LIBWNIANOU, thyrsos with pine-cones and ribbons. Imhoof, Lydische Stadtmuenzen 13, Mionnet 662. Mionnet_662 | Text | Image | |
| RPC 1310 | Sardes, Lydia, AE15, 2.4 gr. Pseudo-autonom, 69-96 AD. SARDIA-NWN, Head of Herakles right / SARDI-ANWN, Herakles, naked, standing facing, head left, holding club and lionskin. RPC 1310; SNG Munich 494. | Text | Image | |
| SGI 5040 | Lydia, Sardes AE22. ca 200-235 AD. MHN ACKENOC, bust of Mên Askenos right, wearing Phrygian cap, crescent moon in background / CAPDIANWN B. NEWKORWN around, EPMOC in exergue, river god Hermos reclining left, holding reed & cornucopiae. SNG Cop 511. | Text | Image | |
| SNG ANS 472 | Lydia, Sardes. 1/12 stater. 17.5 mm; 1.16 gr; 610–560 BC. Lion’s head, right / Incuse punch. SNG ANS 1967.152.472. | Text | Image | |
| SNGCop 458 Sear #4726 | LYDIA, Sardes. 160-150 BC. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm. Cista mystica with serpent; all within ivy wreath / SAR, bow-case with serpents; star right. Kleiner-Noe Series 8, SNG Cop 458. | Text | Image | |
| SNGCop 464 Sear #4735 | Lydia, Sardes AE 17mm. Circa 2nd-1st Century BC. Head of young Dionysos right, wreathed with ivy / SARDI/ANWN, horned panther standing left breaking spear in its mouth, Q to left, XMP monogram below. SNG Cop 464, BMC 42. | Text | Image | |
| SNGCop 468 | Lydia, Sardes AE18. Head of Dionysus right wreathed with ivy / forepart of lion right. | Text | Image | |
| SNGCop 470ff Sear #4736 | Lydia, Sardes AE15. Aftter 133 BC. Head of Apollo right / SARDI-ANWN either side of club, all within oak wreath. | Text | Image | |
| SNGCop 473 | Lydia, Sardes AE15. After 133 BC. Head of Apollo right / SARDI-ANWN either side of club, MHF monogram above, all within oak wreath. | Text | Image | |
| SNGCop 480 | Lydia, Sardes AE15. Aftter 133 BC. Head of Apollo right / SARDI-ANWN either side of club, IAP monogram below, all within oak wreath. | Text | Image | |
| SNGCop 491 | Lydia, Sardes. Circa 2nd-1st Century BC. AE 15mm. Laureate head of Herakles right, lion's skin around neck / Apollo standing facing, control marks to left, all within wreath. | Text | Image | |
| SNGCop 492v | Lydia, Sardes. Circa 2nd-1st Century BC. AE 16mm. Laureate head of Herakles right, lion's skin around neck / Apollo standing facing, magistrate to left, all within wreath. | Text | Image | |
| SNGCop 493 | Lydia, Sardeis. ca 2nd - 1st Century BC. AE 18mm. Laureate bust of a young Herakles right, lion's skin tied around neck / SARDIANWN, nude Apollo standing left, holding bird in extended right hand, laurel branch in left; monogram before, magistrate HRAIOS; all within laurel wreath. BMC 36. | Text | Image | |
| SNGCop 502 | Lydia, Sardis. Circa 2nd-1st Centuries BC. AE 21mm. Draped bust of Artemis right / Athena Nikephoros standing left. | Text | Image | |
| SNGCop 507 | Lydia, Sardes, 2nd-3rd century AD, 26mm, 11.75g. IEPA CYNKLHTOC; draped bust of youthful Senate right / (from top right) CARDIANWN Demeter standing left, holding two grain ears and poppy in right hand and long sceptre in left. BMC 73; SNG Copenhagen 507. | Text | Image | |
| SNG Munich 486cf | Lydia, Sardes, After 133 B.C. AE 15. Head of Apollo right, SSR behind head / SARDI-ANWN above and beneath club, all within oak wreath. No monogram. cf SNG Munich 486 for no monogram type, but without letters behind Apollo's head. BMC-; SNG Munich-; SNG Cop-; etc. | Text | Image | |
| SNG vA 3132 | Sardes, Lydia, AE 6,43g, ca. 150-50 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lionskin / CARDIANWN, Apollo, naked, standing left, holding raven on outstretched right hand and branch in lowered left. MYP monogram in left field. SNG von Aulock 3132; SNG Cop 484-489var (Monogramm); BMC 25 var (no monogram). | Text | Image | |
| SNGvA 3137cf | Lydia, Sardeis, 20mm, 4.38g. Strategos T. Clodius, M.F. Eprius Marcellus. 70-73 AD. EPI TI KLA FILEINOU CTRA; helmeted bust of Athena (or Roma) left, wearing high crested Corinthian helmet and aegis / EP [MARCELLOU TO B]; CARDIANWN; tetrastyle temple. cf. SNG Aulock 3137 and BMC 67 (both: bust right). | Text | Image | |
| Sear #4726 | LYDIA, Sardes. 160-150 BC. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm. Cista mystica with serpent; all within ivy wreath / SAR, bow-case with serpents; star right. Kleiner-Noe Series 8, SNG Cop 458. | |||
| Sear #4731 | Lydia, Sardes AE19. Tyche standing / Zeus. | Text | Image | |
| Sear #4734 | Lydia, Sardes, AE18. 2nd-1st century BC. Head of Herakles right / Apollo standing left in wreath. | |||
| Sear #4735 | Lydia, Sardes AE 17mm. Circa 2nd-1st Century BC. Head of young Dionysos right, wreathed with ivy / SARDI/ANWN, horned panther standing left breaking spear in its mouth, Q to left, XMP monogram below. SNG Cop 464, BMC 42. | |||
| Sear #4736 | Lydia, Sardes AE15. Aftter 133 BC. Head of Apollo right / SARDI-ANWN either side of club, all within oak wreath. | |||
| RPC 2986 | Augustus AE19 of Lydia, Sardes. SEBASTOY, bare head left / SARDIANWN DIODWROS ERMAFILOY, Zeus standing left holding eagle & staff. BMC 97, SNG Cop 514. | Text | Image | |
| RPC 2987 | Augustus, AE20 of Sardes, Lydia. SEBASTOY, bare head right / SARDI-ANWN-DAMAS in three lines within laurel wreath. RPC 2987; Waddington 5228; Hunter 18; Lindgren I A812A. | Text | Image | |
| RPC 2988 | Augustus, AE, Homonoia of Sardes and Pergamon. 31 BC-14 AD. SEBASTOU, bare head right / SARDIANWN KAI PERGAMHNWN / MOU / SAI / OS, Demos, naked to waist, standing right, holding sceptre in left hand, offering right hand to Demos of Pergamon (or emperor) who is standing left in short tunic and mantle, holding transverse sceptre. RPC 2988; Imhoof Monn. Gr. 32; BMC Mysia 213; SNG Cop 545. | Text | Image | |
| RPC 6362 | Pergamum in alliance with Sardes AE20, ca 1 AD. PERGAMHNWN KAI SARDIANWN, demos of Pergamum crowning Demos of Sardes with wreath / CEBACTON KEFANLIWN GRAMMATEUWN, tetrastyle temple containing statue of Augustus. | Text | Image | |
| RPC 2991 | Tiberius AE30 of Lydia, Sardes. SEBASTOS KAISAREWN SARDIANWN, kneeling figure of Tyche of Sardes being raised up by togate figure of Tiberius standing left / SEBASTH IOULIOS KLEWN KAI MEMNWN, Livia seated right holding sceptre & ears of corn. | Text | Image | |
| RPC 2992 | Germanicus, with Drusus, Caesar AE17 of Sardes, Lydia. Bare head of Germanicus right / bare head of Drusus right. BMC 110-112. | Text | Image | |
| RPC 2993 | Germanicus AE 16mm of Sardes, Lydia. Mnaseas, magistrate. Bare head left / Athena standing left, holding phiale; MNA-SEAS down left field. BMC 113 corr. | Text | Image | |
| RPC 2994 | Germanicus & Drusus AE26mm of Sardis, Lydia. Struck during the reign of Caligula AD 37-41. DROUSOS KAI GERMANIKOS KAISARES NEOI QEOI QILADELFOI, togate figures of Germanicus and Drusus seated side by side on curule chairs, one holding lituus, the other a patera / EPI ARCIEREWS ALEXANDROU KLEWNOS SARDIANOU, KOINOU ASIAS around and within wreath. BMC 104, SNGCop 517, SGI 364. | Text | Image | Text | Image |
| RPC 2995 | Germanicus & Drusus AE28mm of Sardis, Lydia. Struck during the reign of Caligula, AD 37-41, restruck by proconsol Asinius Pollio. DROUSOS KAI GERMANIKOS KAISARES NEOI QEOI QILADELFOI, Germanicus and Drusus seated side by side on curule chairs / G AIW ASINNIW PWLLIWNI ANQUPATW, KOINOU ASIAS around and within wreath. SGI 365. | Text | Image | |
| RPC 2996 | Claudius AE15 of Lydia, Sardes. KLAUDIOS KAISAR, bare head left / SARDIANWN, bearded head of Hercules left. SGI 453. | Text | Image | |
| RPC 2997v | Nero AE18 of Sardes, Lydia, c. 60 AD. KAICAR NERWN, laureate head right / EPI TI MINDIOU SARDIANWN, Dionysos standing left with kantharos & long thyrsus, panther at feet. | Text | Image | |
| RPC 3002 | Lydia, Sardes. Nero AE 15. Circa 60 AD. Magistrate Mindios. NERWN KAICAP, laureate head right / EPI MINDIOV SARDIANWN, laureate head of young Herakles right, draped with lionskin. BMC 120. | Text | Image | |
| RPC 3003 | Nero, AE of Sardes, Lydia. 60 AD. 2.90 g. NERWN KAISAR, laureate head right / EPI MINDIOU STRA TO B (partially ligate), laureate head of Herakles right, wearing lionskin. RPC 3003; SNG Munich 511. | Text | Image | |
| RPC 3004 | Nero AE 15 of Lydia, Sardes. Mindios, Strategos. NEPWN SARDIANWN, laureate head right / EPI MINDIOV STPA-TO B, laureate head of young Herakles right, draped with lionskin. SNG Cop 522. | Text | Image | |
| RPC 3009 | Nero, AE of Sardes, Lydia. ca. 65 AD. 2.78 g. NERWN KAISAR, laureate head right / EPI TI MNASEOUS SARDIANWN, laureate head of Herakles right, wearing lionskin. RPC 3009; SNG Cop. 524. | Text | Image | |
| RPC 3010 | Nero, 54-68 AD, AE16 of Sardeis, Lydia. Strategos Tiberios Klaudios Mnaseas; 2.9 gr. EPI TI MNACEOY CARDIANWN, draped bust of Herakles right / CEBACTH, Nike advancing left, holding wreath and palm branch. RPC 3010; BMC 64. | Text | Image | |
| RPC 2999 | Octavia, AE22, Sardis, Lydia. QEAN OKTAOUIAN, draped bust of Octavia right, with ears of corn in wreath / SARDIANWN EPI MINDIOU STRA TO B, Demeter holding two torches, in chariot pulled by two serpents right. BMC 125; RPC 2999. | Text | Image | |
| RPC 3000 | Octavia, AE18 of Sardis, Lydia. QEAN OKTABIAN, Draped bust right, wearing grain ear wreath / SARDIANWN EPI MINDOU STRA TO B, Veiled female standing right, holding sceptre. RPC 3000. | Text | Image | |
| RPC 1305 | Sardes, Lydia. Hemiassarion, Flavian times, 70-73 AD., struck under the Strategos Ti. Clodius M.F. Eprius Marcellus. (From top left, outwards) EPI TI KLA FILEINOU CTPA, draped and helmeted bust of Athena or Roma right, wearing Corinthian helmet and aegis / EPI MARKELLOU CARDIANWN / TO – B (TO = O on T), tetrastyle temple, ET H in exergue. RPC 1305; BMC Lydia 65; Johnston, Sardis 247; Stumpf 314. | Text | Image | |
| RPC 1313 | Vespasian, AE of Sardes, Lydia. 69-79 AD. 8.96 g. AYTOK KAIS OUESPASIA[NW], laureate head right / EPI - FL EISIG - ONOU SAR - DIANWN - STRA in five lines within wreath. RPC 1313; BMC 126. | Text | Image | |
| RPC 1315 | Vespasian AE 23mm of Sardis, Lydia. T. Flavius Eisigonos, strategos. Laureate head of Vespasian right / FL ECEIGONOU CARDIA (magistrate) in four lines within laurel wreath. | Text | Image | |
| RPC 1321 | Domitian AE32 of Sardes in Lydia. DOMITIANOC KAICAP CEBACTOC GEPMANIKOC, laureate head right, aegis on sghoulder / EPI T FL MHTRODWPOV CTPA TO B CAPDIANWN, young Dionysos seated left on throne, pouring wine from kantharos into drinking cup of Hephaistos standing before him. SNGvA 3149, BMC 128. | Text | Obv | Rev |
| SNGMunich 518 | Plotina AE 22mm of Sardes, Lydia. PLWTWEINA CEBACTH, draped bust right / CAPDIANWN, Pelops on horseback right, holding whip. | Text | Image | |
| BMC 132 | Marciana AE20 of Sardes, Lydia. CEBASTH MAPKIAN, diademed & draped bust right / CAPDIANWN PELOP, Pelops, holding whip, on horse galloping right. SNGvA 3150. | Text | Image | |
| BMC 134 | Hadrian, AE of Sardes, Lydia. 7.66 g. AV KAI TRAIANOC ADRIANOC, laureate bust right, draped left shoulder / PAFIH CARDIANWN, temple of Aphrodite Paphia with semicircular wall before, star and crescent above, containing cult stone, column with dove and torch to left and right. BMC 134. SNG München 520. | Text | Image | |
| BMC 146 | Clodius Albinus, AE of Sardes, Lydia. 195-197 AD. 10.66 g. KLW CEPT ALBEINOC KAICAR, bare head right / CARDIANWN DIS NEWKORWN, Tyche standing left, holding rudder and cornucopiae. BMC 146. | Text | Image | |
| BMC 152 | Julia Domna, AE of Sardes, Lydia. 13.76 g. IOVLIA CEBACTH, draped bust right / EPI T FL FRONTWN SAR SARDIANWN B NEWKORWN, Triptolemos, wearing kalathos, in biga of serpents right; two corn-ears before. BMC 152. | Text | Image | |
| SNG vA 3157 | Julia Domna, AE of Sardes, Lydia. 4.36 g. IOVLIA CEBACTH, draped bust right / CARDIANWN B NEWKORWN, the infant Zeus, naked, sitting on ground beneath an eagle hovering left, wings spread. SNG von Aulock 3157. SNG München 522. | Text | Image | |
| SNG vA 8256 | Julia Domna, AE of Sardes, Lydia. 14.64 g. IOVLIA CEBACTH, draped bust right / EPI G KL MIQTIOU ARCA SARDIANWN B NEWKORWN, cult image of Kore between corn-ear and poppy; wreath above left, bucranium above right. SNG von Aulock 8256; SNG München 524. | Text | Image | |
| BMC 159 | Caracalla AE36 Medallion of Sardes in Lydia. Laureate, draped & cuirassed bust right / Tyche on right holding rudder & cornucopia, facing statue of Kore on left, who sits between grain plant in bloom, and poppy in center field, bucranium above, G SAL KLAVDIANOS. | Text | Image | |
| Hirsch 159-856 | Caracalla AE35 of Lydia, Sardes. AVT KAI M AVP CE ANTWNINOC, laureate, draped & cuirassed bust right / EPI D KE MIQROU ARC A around, CARDIANWN B NEWKORWN in ex, city-goddess standing right, towered and veiled, holding transverse sceptre & offering statue of Kore to Caracalla standing left holding wreath & spear. | Text | Image | |
| Weber 6912 | Caracalla. 198-217 AD. AE 31, 16.05g. Lydia, Sardes. AVT K M AVP ANTWNEINOC CEB, laureate, cuirassed bust right, fold of cloak on far shoulder, Medusa head on breast of cuirass / EPI G CAL KLAUDIANOU ARC A TO B CAP in outer legend, DIANWN B NEWKORWN in inner legend, Cult statue of Kore between grain ear and poppy. Weber 6912, pl. 244 (this coin). | Text | Image | |
| SNG Munich 529 | Elagabalus, AE of Sardes, Lydia. 218 - 222 AD. 12.46 g. AYT K M AVR ANTWNEINOC CEB, laureate, cuirassed bust right / EPI G SAL KLAUDIANOU ARC ... SARDIANWN B NEWKORWN, cult statue of Kore facing between stalk of grain and poppy. SNG München 529. | Text | Image | |
| BMC 174 | Julia Maesa AE of Sardes, Lydia. 5.50 g. IOVLIA MAICA AV, draped bust right / CARDIANWN G NEWKORWN, Men standing left, holding pine cone and sceptre. SNG München 531 var; BMC 174 var (obv legend). | Text | Image | |
| SNG Leypold 1233 | Julia Maesa, AE of Sardes, Lydia. 5.30 g. IOVLIA MAICA AV, draped bust right / CARDIANWN G NEWKORWN, Demeter standing left, holding corn-ears and sceptre, serpent at foot. SNG Leypold 1233 corr. | Text | Image | |
| BMC 189 | Gordian III, Sardes, Lydia, AE24. AUT KAIC M ANT GORDIANOC, Laureate, draped bust right / EPI ROUFEINOU CARDIANWN B NEWKORWN around wreath containing bucranium and torch. BMC 189, SNG Copenhagen 536, SNG Tuebingen 3824. | Text | Image | |
| SNG Munich 532 | Severus Alexander, AE of Sardes, Lydia. 222-235 AD. 5.70 g. AYT K M AU CE ALEXANDROC, laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right / EPI NEIKOMAC SARDIANWN B NEWKORWN, temple of Aphrodite Paphia with semicircular wall before, star and crescent above, cult stone within, dove and torch to left and right. SNG München 532. | Text | Image | |
| BMC 196 | Philip I, Sardeis, Lydia. 36 mm, 22.94 g. AVT K M IOVL FILIPPOC AVG, laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right / EP CTR AVR HRAKLEIDI ANOU CARDIANWN..RKE, agonistic wreath within which CRUCANQINA surrounding large letter A. BMC 196. | Text | Image | |
| See also: | Perseus Project database, coins of Sardeis | |||
| Entry for Lydia, Sardes on the Digital Historia Numorum | ||||
| Search for Sardes in the British SNG Volumes' Database at the Fitzwilliam Museum | ||||
| Search for Sardes at AsiaMinorCoins.com | ||||
| Search for Sardes in the ANS Database | ||||
| Search for Sardes at AncientImports.com | ||||
| Search for Sardes at Incitatus Coins | ||||
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