Ancient Kydonia was centered around today's harbour area and Kastelli Hill. Most of the excavated remains are stored in the Chania Archaeological Museum. The flag of Chania shows the hero Kydon stringing his bow, as on the coin BMC 4.
BMC 2 | Kydonia, Crete, AR Stater, 23 mm, 10.89 g. ca. 320-270 BC. Head of maenad right, wearing triple-pendant earring. / KYΔΩN, Kydon standing left, stringing bow, in dotted border within shallow circular incuse. BMC 2; Svoronos 11; Le Rider, Crétoises, 283; Sear SG 3249. | Text | Image |
BMC 4 | Kydonia, Crete, AR Stater 11 g, ca. 320-270 BC. Head of Artemis Diktynna left, wearing a ivy wreath. / KYΔΩN, Kydon standing left, stringing his bow. BMC 4; Svoronos 24; Philipson Coll. 1478; Paris 2555; Pellerin Rec. III, pl. 99, 36. | Text | Image |
Robinson 9 | Kydonia, Crete AR Hemidrachm. Ca. 455-450 BC. Sea turtle with segmented shell / “Skew” incuse with raised arc in corner of largest segment. Le Rider 8, SNGCop 402. | Text | Image | Text | Image |
Robinson 48 | Crete. Cydonia AR Diobol. Ca. 320-280 BC. Head of young Dionysus or nymph left, long hair rolled around face and in loose chignon behind, loose locks falling down back of neck / Raised linear square in which raised lines forming “skew” pattern. SNG Lockett 2547. | Text | Image |
SNG Cop 402 | Kydonia, Crete, AR Hemidrachm, 14 mm, 2.95 g. ca. 450-330 BC. Tortoise with T-pattern shell; A in right field. / Incuse square with skew pattern of five sections with crescent in one section. SNG Cop. 402; Robinson, "Pseudoaeginetica" 8 in NC 1928; Sear SG 3247. | Text | Image |
SNG Cop 414 | Kydonia, Crete. AE18. Youthful male head right, short hair / KYD-W, hound seated right. SNG Cop 414; BMC 15. | Text | Image |
SNG Delepierre 1528 | Kydonia, Crete, AR triobol or hemidrachm, 12 mm, 2.78 g. ca. 450-330 BC. Tortoise with T-pattern shell; K in right field. / Incuse square with skew pattern of five sections. SNG Delepierre 1528 (K not visible). | Text | Image |
SNG Delepierre 2355 | Kydonia, Crete, AR Diobol, 1.84 g. ca 180 BC. Head of maenad left, wreathed with ivy. / Linear square divided into five sections, small circles at each corner. SNG Delepierre 2355; SNG Lockett 2547. | Text | Image |
SNG Delepierre 2357 | Kydonia, Crete, AR Diobol, 1.5 g. early 2nd c. BC. Head of maenad left, wreathed with ivy. / Linear square divided into five sections, three containing a dot. SNG Delepierre 2357; Seager, Cretan Hoard Ha-35 in ANS NNM 23. | Text | Image |
Svoronos 3 | Kydonia, Crete AR Stater. ca 320-280 BC. Signed by the artist Neuantos. Head of Dictynna right, in multiple pendant earring, hair wreathed with grapes and vine leaves; behind engraver’s signature in tiny letters / KYΔΩN, the hero Cydon, nude, standing left, stringing bow. Le Rider 18. | Text | Image |
Svoronos 14 | Kydonia, Crete, AR obol. ca 280 BC, 0.64 g. Head of Demeter or Persephone right, wreathed with corn. / KY-ΔΩ, amphora with grape vine hanging from each handle. Svoronos 14; BMC 10; Sear SG 3253. | Text | Image |
Svoronos 15 | Kydonia, Crete, AR Stater, 23 mm, 8.82 g. ca. 280-270 BC. Head of maenad left, wreathed with ivy. / KYΔΩN, Kydon standing left, stringing bow, retrograde K and spearhead in left field, hound at foot left. Svoronos 15; Paris 2557; Mionnet II, 116; Northwick 866. | Text | Image |
Svoronos 16 | Kydonia, Crete AR Stater. ca 320-280 BC. Head of nymph or maenad left, hair wreathed with ivy and vine leaves / KYΔΩN, the hero Cydon, nude, standing left, stringing bow, in left field race torch above hound right. Weber 4435. | Text | Image |
Svoronos 18 | Kydonia, Crete AR Trihemiobol. Circa late 3rd Century BC. Head of Pan or satyr left / Hound seated right. SNG Copenhagen 411, SNG Lockett 2550. | Text | Image | Text | Image |
Svoronos 23 | Kydonia, Crete AR Stater. ca 320-280 BC. Head of nymph or maenad left, in pendant earring, hair wreathed with ivy and vine leaves / KYΔΩN (retrograde), the hero Kydon, nude, standing left, stringing bow. Le Rider 1. | Text | Image |
Svoronos 25 | Kydonia, Crete AR Drachm. ca 320-280 BC. Head of Dictynna left, in pendant earring, wreathed with ivy / KYΔΩN, Kydon, nude, standing left, stringing bow. Le Rider pl. i, 7. | Text | Image |
Svoronos 26 | Kydonia, Crete, AR obol, 12 mm, 0.9 g. 320-270 BC. Head of Maenad left. / Three crescents around central K. Svoronos 26; Imhoof MG 13; BMC 11; SNG Cop. 407; Sear SG 3252. | Text | Image |
Svoronos 30 | Kydonia, Crete, AR obol, 11 mm, 320-270 BC. Head of maenad left, wreathed with ivy / KYDWN, three crescents with bucranium in the centre. Svoronos 30; BMC 6. | Text | Image |
Svoronos 41 | Kydonia, Crete AR Drachm. ca 320-280 BC. Head of Athena right, in acorn earring and crested Corinthian helmet with coiled serpent device on bowl / KYΔΩN, bitch standing left, suckling infant Cydon, star(?) above. BMC 9. | Text | Image |
Svoronos 49 | Kydonia, Crete, AE14. Youthful male head right. / KY-ΔΩ, hound sitting right. BMC 5; Svoronos 49; SNG Cop 412; Mionnet, Supp. IV, 177. | Text | Image |
Svoronos 53 | Kydonia, Crete. ca 4th Century BC. AE13. Youthful male head left / KY, hound seated right, right paw raised. Svoronos 53. | Text | Image |
Svoronos 59 | Kydonia, Crete AR Tetradrachm. Circa 2nd-1st Century BC. ΠAΣIΩN, head of Artemis right, bow and quiver at shoulder / KY-ΔΩ NIA-TA N in three lines across fields, Diktynna standing facing, head turned left, with torch in left hand, hound at feet; all within laurel wreath. SNG Copenhagen 416; BMC 22. | Text | Image |
Svoronos 60 | Kydonia, Crete AR Tetradrachm. ca 2nd-1st Century BC. Π-A Σ-I Ω-N in two lines across fields, head of Artemis right, bow and quiver at shoulder / KIΔΩNIATAN, Artemis standing front, looking left, holding torch, hound at foot left, all within wreath. Svoronos 60; BMC 22; McClean 7090; SNG Berry 875; SNG Lockett 2551; SNG Cop 416; Jameson 1322; Mionnet II, 123; Paris Babelon inventory 2565; Sear SG 3255. | Text | Image |
Svoronos 65 | Kydonia, Crete, AE15. 200-67 BC. Laureate head of Apollo right. / KY-ΔΩ above and beneath crescent. Svoronos 65; Paris 2564; Mionnet II, 124; SNG Cop. 420. | Text | Image |
Svoronos 80 | Kydonia, Crete, AE14, 2.94 g. Owl standing right, head facing; A-Γ across fields. / KY-ΔΩ above and beneath star in upturned crescent. Svoronos 80. | Text | Image |
Svoronos 86 | Kydonia, Crete, AE15, 2.9 g. Owl standing right, head facing; A-Ρ across fields. / KY beneath star in upturned crescent. Svoronos 86; BMC 26-27; Paris 207; Sear SG 3259. | Text | Image |
RPC 1015 | Tiberius, AE of Kydonia, Crete. AD 14-37. TI KAIΣAΡI ΣEBAΣTΩ KY or similar, laureate head right. / KYΔΩNIATAN, Miltos sitting left, suckled by a hound. RPC 1015; Paris 1966-453; Paris Babelon inventory 2580-2581 (Augustus); Mionnet II, 273 (ditto); cf Svoronos 119. | Text | Image |
RPC 1031 | Claudius, AE of Kydonia, Crete. AD 41-54. 9.73 g. TI KΛAYΔIOΣ KAICAΡ ΓEΡM ΣEBAΣTOΣ, laureate head right. / ΔΡOY KΛAY ΓEΡ ANTΩNIA, draped bust of Antonia right, facing bare head of Nero Drusus left. RPC 1031. | Text | Image |
RPC 46 | Domitian, AE31 of Kydonia, Crete. AD 81-96. 16.21 g. Magistrate Neokydos Thera. ΔOMITANOC KAICAΡ, Laureate head right. / EΠI NEO KYΔOY ΘAΡ, Zeus seated left, holding grain ears and sceptre. RPC 46; Svoronos 139; SNG Cop 427. | Text | Image |
RPC 47 | Domitian, AE of Kydonia, Crete. AD 81-96. Magistrate Neokydos Thera. ΔOMITIANOC KAICAΡ, laureate head right. / EΠI NEO KYΔOY ΘA, hexastyle temple. RPC 47; Svoronos 141; Paris, Babelon inventory 2869-2870. | Text | Image |
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