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The Ancient Coinage of Islands

Listed by Moushmov Number

Including additional items for this online edition, with numbers in italics.
Insvla Traciae MYRINA
(about 300 B.C.) City on island Lemnos in White Sea . Autonomous bronze coins.
5601 Athena’s head right. Rev. : MYPI. Owlet opposite. 15 mm.
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SAMOTHRACE In White sea.
(about 280 B.C.) Autonomous coins. Silver.
5602 Athena’s helmeted head left. Rev. : ΣAMO MHTPΩNAO. Cybele with kalathos (hat) on her head seated on a throne left, holding patera and sceptre; next to the throne – lying lion. 22 mm. Bronze.
Samothrace AR Didrachm. After 280 BC. Head of Athena right, in crested Corinthian helmet with coiled serpent device on bowl / Cybele enthroned left, holding phiale & sceptre, lion seated left under throne, SAMO to right, to left magistrate's name MHTRWNA. BMC 1.
5602AThrace, Islands off, Samothrace AR Hemiobol. Circa 500-475 BC. Sphinx seated left / Head of a roaring lion left; within dotted incuse square.
5603 Athena’s helmeted head right. Rev. : ΣAMO ΠYΘO. Cybele seated left, holding patera and sceptre. Table XXXIV 17.
Samothrace. ca 280 BC. Ć 18mm. Helmeted bust of Athena right / SA-MO, Cybele seated left, holding sceptre & patera, PUQOK behind. SNGCop 999.
5604 The same front part. Rev. : : ΣAMO TEIΣI. Cybele seated left.
5605 The same front part. Rev. : ΣAMO. Cybele seated left.
5606 The same front part. Rev. : ΣAMO. Cybele seated right, holding patera and sceptre.
Thrace, Islands off, Samothrace AE20. Circa 280 BC. Helmeted, drpaed bust of Athena right / SAMO, Cybele seated left, holding sceptre & patera. SNGCop 995.
5607 Woman’s head left, with raised hair tied with ribbon. Rev. : ΣAMO. Bearded man with kalathos (hat) on his head, dressed with loose clothes, seated on a throne left, holding in right hand 2 ears; in front of him – Herm or Priap’s attribute.
5608 Athena’s head right; star behind. Rev. : ΣAMOΘPAKΩN. Cybele seated on a throne left, holding patera and sceptre sometimes; beneath the throne – star.
5609 Athena’s head right. Rev. : APIΣO ΞE ΣAMOΘP. Cybele seated on a throne left, with right extended hand, holding in left hand sceptre; beneath the throne – lion.
5610 The same front part. Rev. : ΣAMO…ΞENOΦ…Cybele saeted on a throne, holding patera and sceptre.
5611 Another with ΞENOT or MHTPΩ or ΣAMO MHTP or ΣAMO ΣΩKΛE and the same image.
5612 Athena’s head left. Rev. : ΣA. Ram advancing left.
5613 The same head. Rev. : ΣAM AKHP. Front part of a ram.
5614 Unbearded head right. Rev. : ΣANOΘPAKΩN…EIPΩNOΣ TPIΩBOΛO (sic). Ram standing right.
5615 Hermes’s head with winged hat; caduceus behind. Rev. : The same legend and image like aforeside.
5616 Athena’s helmeted head right. Rev. : ΣANOΘR ΠOΛYΞEN. Cybele with kalathos on her head seated, holding patera and sceptre; next to her – lion standing.
5617 The same front part. Rev. : ΣAMO ΣΩKΛE. Cybele seated, holding patera and sceptre.
5618 The same front part. Rev. : ΣAMO ΘEΩNO. Woman seated, holding patera and sceptre.
5619 The same front part. Rev. : ΣAMO ZENOY. Cybele seated, holding patera and sceptre. Imperial bronze coins. HADRIANVS (117 – 138 A.D.
5620 AY KAI TPA AΔPIA. His head right. Rev. : CAMIWN ЄN ΘPAKH. Tyche standing with rudder and cornucopiae. Table X 29.
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IMBROS
(about 350 B.C.). In White Sea. Autonomous bronze coins.
5621 Athena’s helmeted head right. Rev. : IMBPIΩN. Woman standing with long dress, holding patera and lyre.
5622 The same front part. Rev. : IMBPIΩN. Woman standing, with right raised hand, holding in left hand cornucopiae.
5623 Woman’s head right. Rev. : IMBPOY. Naked young man, itifalen, advancing right, holding club and patera; in front – knotty club.
5624 Artemis’s head right. Rev. : IMBPOY. Hermes bearded, naked, itifalen, with hat on his head, standing in front of altar, holding branch in right hand, and in the left – patera. In the margin – caduceus. 14 mm.
5625 Woman’s head right. Rev. : IMBPOY. The same deity with branch and patera, standing in front of tripod for fragrance (thymiaterion). In the margin – hanging lamp. 14 mm.
5626 Another – similar with wheat grain in the margin. 11 mm.
5627 Another – similar without altar and tripod. 11 mm.
5628 Athena’s helmeted head right. Rev. : AΘENAIΩN. Hermes naked standing right in front of timiaterion, holding branch and patera. 17 mm. Imperial bronze coins. AVGVSTVS (33 B.C. – 14 A.D.
5629 ΣEBAΣTOΣ. August’s head right ; on the neck six-pointed star in kontramarka. Rev. : IMB. Apolo’s laureate head right; in front – lyre. 22 mm.
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THASOS In White Sea
(about 550 – 146 B.C.) Autonomous coins. Golden.
5630 Head of Herakles young, covered with lion’s skin, right. Rev. : ΘAΣION HΠEIPO. Tripod decorated with ribbon; in the margin – vase with 2 handles. 17 mm.
5631 Head of Dionysos Indian with ivy wreath, left. Rev. : ΘAΣION. Herakles with lion’s skin on his head, kneeing on the ground with right knee, right, opina bow; in front – bunch of grapes. 13 mm. Silver. style="mso-spacerun: Period I.
5632 Head of Dionysos Indian with ivy wreath, left. Rev. : ΘAΣION. Herakles with lion’s skin on his head, kneeing on the ground with right knee, opina bow right; in the margin – lyre. All in concave square. 23 mm.
5633 Another – similar, but shield instead of lyre.
5634 Another – similar with fly, or vase with two handles, or thunderbolt.
5635 Head of Dionysos Indian with ivy wreath, left. Rev. : BΩA OATIΓOON (sic). Herakles with one of his khees on the ground, opina bow; in the margin – lizard. All in concave square. 18 mm.
5636 The same front part. Rev. : ΘAΣION. The same image; in the margin – human’s head or dolphin. 15 mm.
5637 The same coin, in the margin – caduceus, cup and club, or lizard, grasshopper, lyre, branch or burning torch. 13 mm.
5638 The same front part. Rev. : ΘAΣION. Herakles dressed with lion’s skin, with one of the knees on the ground, opina bow; in the margin – monogram HP. All in square made of 4 lines. 18 mm.
5639 The same, but with other monogram.
5640 Two-headed Silen. Rev. : ΘAΣI. Two vases; one of them is standing, and the other – inverted. All in concave square. 13 mm.
5641 Silen left, kneeing with one knee on the ground, holding in right hand vase with 2 handles. Rev. : ΘAΣION. Vase with 2 handles. 12 mm. Table XXXV 7.
5642 Silen right, kneeing with one knee on the ground, holding his penis. Rev. : Concave square divided into 4 parts. 10 mm. Table XXXV 8.
5643 Satir n\bearded naked, right knee on the ground, holding into his arms Menada. Rev. : Concave square divided into 4 parts. 8 – 24 mm. Table XXXV 2 and LI 21 and 24.
5644 Head of Dionysos Indian with ivy wreath, left. Rev. : ΘAΣION. Herakles with right knee on the ground, opina bow. 14 mm. Table XXXV 5.
5645 Dolphing right. Rev. : Concave square divided into 4 parts. Table LI 23.
5646 Head of Dionysos Indian with ivy wreath, right. Rev. : ΘAΣION and club within wreath of ears or ivy wreath. 15 mm. Table XXXV 6.
5647 Two fishes (dolphins) – one on top of the other, turned opposite. Rev. : Concave square divided into 4 parts. 8 mm. Table LI 22.
5648 Silen’s head witout hair, bearded, with ivy wreath, right. Rev. : ΘAΣI. Two dolphins – one on top of the other, turned opposite, in concave square.
5649 Head of Dionysos Indian with ivy wreath. Rev. : ΘAΣION in square divided into 4 parts. Within – Herakles naked with lion’s skin on his head, one of his knees on the ground, opina bow right. In the margin – owlet. 15 mm.
5650 Head of Dionysos Indian with ivy wreath and vine, left. Rev. : Square: ΘA TION (sic). Herakles dressed with lion’s skin, kneeing, holding bow. In the margin – fish. 24 mm. Period II.
5651 Head of Dionysos young with ivy wreath, right. Rev. : HPAKΛEOYΣ ΣΩTHPOΣ ΘAΣIΩN. Herakles standing left, holding in right hand club, and on his left hand is hanging lion’s skin. In the maring some monograms. 35 mm. Table XXXV 1. Note. From the silver coins of period II are occurred many barbarian imitations, or the so-called Keltian coins, minted in the old days. Their badges: rough -hewn, and often there is poins instead of legend. Table XXXV 9, 10, 12.
5652 Head of Dionysos with ivy wreath. Rev. : Two half-squatting one after another man’s naked figure; between their heads some object vase-shaped. Barbarian imitation. 33 mm. Table XXXV 11. Bronze.
5653 Demeter’s veiled head right. Rev. : ΘAΣIΩN. Dioskur’s heads one beside the other between 2 vines, right.
5654 Artemis’s bust with quiver on shoulder, right. Rev. : ΘAΣIΩN KHKI. Herakles standing with lion’s skin on his head, opina bow, right. Table XXXV 4.
5655 Herakles’s head with lion’s skin, left. Rev. : ΘAΣION. Bow, cup and club.
5656 The same with prow, thyrsos and cart.
5657 The same front part. Rev. : ΘAΣIΩN. At one of the sides – bow, and at the other – club; above – vase with two handles. In the margin Φ or monogram.
5658 Youthful head right. Rev. : ΘAΣIΩN and club within laurel wreath.
5659 Dionysos’s unbearded head. Rev. : ΘAT…Herakles with lion’s skin on his head, with one knee on the ground, opina bow; in the margin – bunch of grapes. All in square.
5660 Artemis’s bust with quiver on shoulder, holding bow. Rev. : ΘAΣIΩN ΘEOΔΩ…Herakles standing with lion’s skin on his head, opina bow. Table XXXIV 19.
5661 The same front part. Rev. : ΘAΣIΩN. Herakles with lion’s skin on his head advancing right, opina bow; in the margin – two monograms.
5662 Herakles’s bearded head, with lion’s skin. Rev. : ΘAΣIΩN. Club and bow.
5663 The same head without beard. Rev. : ΘAΣIΩN. Club and bow; sometimes above – bunch of grapes, rose or spade. Table XXXIV 18.
5664 The same front part. Rev. : ΘAΣIΩN AΦEIP…Club and bow.
5665 The same front part. Rev. : ΔHMAPETOΣ ΘAΣIΩN and club in laurel wreath.
5666 Another with ΘAΣIΩN HΠEIPO. Club and bow.
5667 Dionysos’s head with ivy wreath. Rev. : ΘAΣIΩN. In laurel wreath.
5668 Vase with two handles. Rev. : ΘAΣION. Cornucopiae.
5669 Medusa’s head. Rev. : ΘAΣIΩN. Lion turning its head toward a star.
5670 Head of Dionysos young with ivy wreath, right. Rev. : HPAKΛEOYΣ ΣΩTHPOΣ ΘAΣIΩN. Herakles standing left, holding club and lion’s skin. Table XXXV 3. Note: There are barbarian imitations like this type coin. Imperial bronze coins. HADRIANVS (117 – 138 A.D.
5671 AYTOKP ANT…His cuirassed bust right. Rev. : ΘAΣIΩN. Herakles standing, holding club and lion’s skin. Table XI 10. CARACALLA (198 – 217 A.D.
5672 AYTOKP ANT…His cuirassed bust. Rev. : ΘACIΩN. Herakles standing, holding club and lion’s skin. Table XI 10. GETA (209 – 212 A.D.
5673 ΠO ΓETAC KAICAP. His head. Rev. : ΘACIWN. Herakles advancing, turning, holding club and lion’s skin. Table XI 10.
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HEPHAESTIA
(about 300 – 190 B.C.) City on island Lemnos in White Sea . Autonomous bronze coins.
5674 Yuothful diademed head right. Rev. : HΦAI. Ram left. Table XXXIII 22.
5675 The same front part. Rev. : HΦAI. Ram left, and torch in front.
5676 Apollo’s laureate head right; barley grain behind. Rev. : HΦAI. Burning torch between the hats of Dioskurs. Table XXXIII 21.
5677 Diademed head right. Rev. : HΦAI. Torch between the hats of Dioskurs and caduceus.
5678 Athena’s helmeted head right. Rev. : HΦA. Owlet and palm sometimes. Table XXXIII 23.
5679 Athena’s helmeted head left. Rev. : HΦA or HΦAI. Ram advancing left.
5680 The same head right. Rev. : HΦAI. Ram right.
5681 Apollo’s laureate head left. Rev. : HΦA between two torches.
5682 Helios’s radiate head (god of the Sun). Rev. : HΦAIΣ. Bunch of grapes.

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