CITY AND SEMI-AUTOMOUS COINAGE |
BMC 16 | Cyprus, Paphos. Pny… (ca. 460 BC). AR obol. Bull walking left, winged solar disk above / Cypriote inscription, eagle standing left, olive spray to right. Traité II 1299.
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Mionnet 48 | Nikokles Paphius, King of Cyprus. AR Drachm. Head of Venus left, wearing flat-topped crown, decorated with flowers / NIKOKΛEOYΣ ΠAΦION, Apollo naked, seated left on omphalos, holding arrow and resting on bow, ram at feet. Mionnet 3, 48. | Text | Image |
SNG Cop 27 | Paphos. Stasandros. Circa 450 BC. AR Obol. Bull standing left; winged solar disk above / Eagle standing left.
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Sear SG 3593 | Paphos (Paphos, Amathos or Soli), Cyprus, AR stater or double siglos, (10.75g) Late 6th to early 5th century BC. Bull walking left, Cypriot legend Pa. A. in field. / Eagle's head left, palmette above, guilloche pattern below, all in dotted square within incuse square. Sear SG 3593; Larnaka hoard, 1933, 186; Waddington 4828; BMC 8; Rosen 751; Asyut hoard 785; Kraay, ACGC 1088. (Same but bull standing left: Sear SG 3593). | Text | Image |
Sear SG 5785 | Paphos, Cyprus, AE15. 4th-3rd c. BC. Head of Aphrodite left, wearing stephane. / Cypriot letters PAFI above dove standing right on sceptre. BMC 48; Sear SG 5785. | Text | Image |
Sear SG 5786 | Timarchos, Paphos AE16. Before 309 BC. Head of Aphrodite left, wearing ornate stephane. / Dove standing right on sceptre, star and Cypriot letter above. Sear SG 5786 type (with letter to right of dove). | Text | Image |
AUGUSTUS |
RPC 3906 | Augustus AE16 Hemiobol of Paphos, Cyprus. DIVI F IMP CAESAR, head right / A PLAVTIVS PRO COS, temple of Aphrodite at Paphos, containing conical xoanon, semicircular courtyard. | Text | Image |
RPC 3916 | Time of Augustus (?), AE17, (2.39g) Cyprus, Scorpion / Capricorn right, star above. RPC3916. | Text | Image |
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RPC 4101 | Augustus AE Sestertius of Syria or Cyprus(?). 22 BC. IMP AVGVST TR POT, laureate head right / OB CIVES SERVATOS in laurel wreath. BMC 738. | Text | Image |
TIBERIUS |
RPC 3919 | Tiberius AE25 (As). Paphos or Salamis Mint, Cyprus, after 15 AD. Laureate head right / IVLIA AVGVSTA, Livia seated right. BMC 5-6. | Text | Image |
NERO |
RPC 4309 | Nero AE30 of Cyprus. IM NER CLAV CAESAR, laureate head right, serpent in front / Large S.C in laurel wreath of 8 leaves. | Text | Obv-Rev |
TRAJAN |
BMC 38 | Trajan, AE of Paphos, Cyprus. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Temple of Paphian Aphrodite, cone flanked by two stars within; two columns on either side, semi-circular court in front. BMC 38; SNG Copenhagen 82. | Text | Image |
JULIA DOMNA |
BMC 57 | Julia Domna, AE 31 of Paphos, Cyprus, Before 217 AD. IOYΛ ΔOMNA CEB, draped bust right / KOINON KYΠIΩN, Temple of Aphrodite at Paphos with paved semicircular court before; cone in central portion of temple and candelabra in side sections, each with dove on roof; star in crescent above central roof. BMC 57; SNG Copenhagen 90 var. (younger portrait). | Text | Image |
| PDF: H. de Luynes: Inscriptions Cypriotes, 1852, (in French) on google.books, free download worldwide | |
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