Ancient Coinage of Cyprus, Paphos

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CITY AND SEMI-AUTOMOUS COINAGE
BMC 16Cyprus, 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. TextImage
Cox 128Paphos, Cyprus. AE17. semi-autonomous rule, mid 1st century BC. 4.02 g. Diademed head of Zeus-Ammon to right. / Zeus Salaminios standing left, corn-ears and sceptre. Star above head. Waddington 4838-4839; Cox Curium 128; Zapiti & Michaelidou 69 (Cleopatra VII?); Tziambazis 70; Nicolaou Paphos II 469-509.TextImage
Mionnet 48Nikokles 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.TextImage
SNG Cop 27Paphos, Cyprus, AR obol, struck under Stasandros ca 450 BC. 10 mm, 0.83 g. Bull standing left, winged solar disk above. / Eagle standing left, wings closed, one-handled vase in lower left field, ivy leaf in upper right field. SNG Cop 27; BMC 27; Tziambazis 74.TextImage
Sear SG 3593Paphos (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).TextImage
Sear SG 5785Paphos, 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.TextImage
Sear SG 5786Timarchos, Paphos, AE14, ca 350-332 BC. 2.09 g. Head of Aphrodite left, wearing stephane. / Dove standing to right; star above, Cypriot letter 'ba' to right, 'tim' in Cypriot below. Type Sear 5786; Destrooper-Georgiades, A. "Le monnayage de Paphos au IVe siècle, nouvelles perspectives" in XIII Congreso. (Madrid, 2005), p. 252, 6; Traité II 1324; Tziambazis 90..TextImage
Traite II 1322Paphos, Cyprus, AE 10 mm. Struck under Timocharis, ca 350-332 BC. 1.56 g. Head of Aphrodite left, wearing stephane. / ΠAΦI above dove standing right. Traité II 1322; Destrooper-Georgiades 11-12; BMC pl. XXII, 9; Tziambazis 91; Sear 5787.TextImage
AUGUSTUS
RPC 3906Augustus 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.TextImage
RPC 3916 Time of Augustus (?), AE17, (2.39g) Cyprus, Scorpion / Capricorn right, star above. RPC3916.TextImage
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RPC 4101Augustus AE Sestertius of Syria or Cyprus(?). 22 BC. IMP AVGVST TR POT, laureate head right / OB CIVES SERVATOS in laurel wreath. BMC 738.TextImage
TIBERIUS
RPC 3919Tiberius AE25 (As). Paphos or Salamis Mint, Cyprus, after 15 AD. Laureate head right / IVLIA AVGVSTA, Livia seated right. BMC 5-6. TextImage
NERO
RPC 4309Nero AE30 of Cyprus. IM NER CLAV CAESAR, laureate head right, serpent in front / Large S.C in laurel wreath of 8 leaves.TextObv-Rev
TRAJAN
BMC 38Trajan, 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.TextImage
JULIA DOMNA
BMC 57Julia 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).TextImage
PDF: H. de Luynes: Inscriptions Cypriotes, 1852, (in French) on google.books, free download worldwide
Entry for Cyprus, Paphos on the Digital Historia Numorum
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