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| BCD 529 | Patrai, Achaia. Ca 35 BC. AE Sixth Obol. (1.57 g, 12h). Magistrate Damasias, son of Agesilaus. Δ-A M-A C-I A-C, Owl standing left, head facing / Trident, P-A across fields, all within wreath. BCD Peloponnesos 529. | Text | Image |
| BCD 530 | Patrai, Achaia, AE trichalkon, ca. 45-40 BC. Magistrate Zenophantos, son of Sosistratos. Cista mystica within wreath / ΞENOΦANTOC CωCICTΡATOY, ΠATΡ monogram in field, Dionysos standing half left, holding thyrsos over shoulder and raising right hand. BCD Peloponnesos 530. | Text | Image |
| BCD 533 | Patrae, Achaia, ca. 31 BC. AR Hemidrachm 14mm, 1.94g. Magistrate Agys Aischrionos. Laureate head of Zeus right / AΓYC AI CXΠIΩNOC around ΠA monogram within laurel wreath. BCD Peloponnesos 533; SNG Copenhagen 152; BMC 1. | Text | Image |
| BCD 553 | Patrai, Achaia, AE13 semiautonomous issue, ca. AD 175-192. 2.94 g. COL AVG, draped bust of Artemis right, quiver behind shoulder. / ACH PAT, rectangular tripod, globe in centre. BCD 553; RPC I, 1247; Agallopoulou, p. 211, fig. I. | Text | Image |
| BMC 1 | Patrai, Achaia. AR hemidrachm, ca 31 BC, magistrate Agys, son of Aischrion. 2.4 g. Laureate head of Zeus right. / AΓYC-AI-CXΡI-ΩNOC in three lines around PA monogram, all within laurel wreath. BMC 1; Sear Greece 2962; BCD Peloponnesos 534; Hoover HGC 58. | Text | Image |
| BMC 2-3 | Patrai, Achaia. AR triobol or hemidrachm, ca mid 30 BC, magistrate Damasias Agesilaou, 2.16 g. Diademed head of Aphrodite right, wearing stephane, earring and necklace, hair in a bun. / ΔA-MACIAC above ΠATΡ monogram, all within laurel wreath. BMC 2-3; BCD (LHS) 525-528; Sear Greece 2963; McClean 6325-6328; SNG Lockett 2348; SNG Cop 154. | Text | Image |
| BMC 8 | Patrae, Achaia, AE21 civic issue. ca 45-40 BC. 5.41 g. Magistrate Metrodoros, son of Menekleos. Head of Herakles right, hair bound in a taenia. / MHTΡOΔωΡOC MENEKΛEOC ΠATΡEωN, Athena walking right, holding shield and spear. ΠAΡE monogram in left field, owl standing right in right field. BMC Peloponnesus 8-11; BCD Peloponnesos I 509; Hoover HGC 59. | Text | Image |
| BMC 17 | Patrai, Achaia, AE15, semi-autonomous issue, 1st-2nd c. AD. 2.3 g. No legend, arrow, quiver and bow. / COL A A PATR, lyre. BMC 17 (this coin); SNG Cop 166; Paris 1224; Mionnet II, 324; RPC I, 1251. | Text | Image |
| Clerk 73 | Patrae, Achaean League AR Hemidrachm. ca 86 BC. Laureate head of Zeus right / AX monogram, XΓ-ΠA, ΦI above, dolphin below, all in wreath. BCD 508.4. | Text | Image |
| Clerk 81 | Patrai, Achaean League AR Hemidrachm. ca 86 BC. Laureate head of Zeus right / AX monogram, ΣΩ above, IE monogram to left, ΠA to right, dolphin below. BCD 508.7. | Text | Image |
| Hunter 2 | Patrai, Achaia, AE trichalkon, ca. 45-40 BC. Magistrate Aristarchos, son of Damon. Cista mystica within wreath / AΠICTAΠXOC ΔAMΩNOC, ΠATΡ monogram in field, Dionysos standing half left, holding thyrsos over shoulder and raising right hand. Caduceus in right field. Hunter 2; BCD Peloponnesos 517. | Text | Image |
| McClean 6329 | Patrae, Achaia AE20. 146-32 BC. Head of Athena in crested Corinthian helmet / Bearded Poseidon walking right, wielding a trident, dolphin in right hand. | Text | Image |
| Paris 1223 | Patrai, Achaia, AE15, semi-autonomous issue, 1st-2nd c. AD. 2.13 g. No legend, cista mystica, bunch of grapes to left, transverse thyrsos to right. / COL A A PATR to right and left of club. BMC 16; Paris 1223 (this coin); Mionnet II, 323 (ditto); RPC I, 1250. | Text | Image |
| SNG Cop 244 | Patrai, Achaean League, AR Hemiobol. Circa 175-168 BC. Laureate head of Zeus right / Monogram in wreath, ΛY above, A-Π, dolphin right below. Thompson 298. | Text | Image | Text | Image |
| Weber 3961 | Patrae, Achaia. AE Hexachalkon, 40-35 BC. 4.67 g. Magistrate Nikostratos, son of Kallistrates. Bearded head of Herakles right, hair bound in a taenia. / NIKOCTΡATOC KAΛΛICTΡATOY ΠATΡEωN, Athena walking right, holding lowered spear and shield on left arm, palm branch in left field, ΠAΡ monogram in right field. Weber 3961 (this coin); BCD Pelop. 518-20; SNG Cop 164. | Text | Image |
| RPC 1252 | Augustus, AE23 of Patrai, Achaea. 7.54g. PATER, bare head of Augustus right. / C A A P PATRIAE, Founder ploughing right with two oxen. RPC 1252; BMC 18; SNG Cop 167; Paris 1228-1229. | Text | Image |
| RPC 1253 | Augustus, Posthumous issue struck by Tiberius, after 14 AD, AE26 As of Patrae, Achaia, Peloponnesos. DIVVS AVGVSTVS PATER, Radiate head of Augustus left / COL A A PATRENS above and beneath founder, togate, holding staff and vexillum, ploughing left behind yoke of oxen. RPC 1253; BCD Peloponnessos 540f. SNG Cop 168. McClean 6336. | Text | Image |
| RPC 1265 var Mionnet 925 | Nero AE As. Patrae, Achaea. 24mm, 12.18 gr. NERO CAESAR AVG GERM, radiate head left / ADVENTVS AVGVSTI, CP (Colonia Patrae) above, Galley travelling left with nine oarsmen. Mionnet IV, 925; RPC 1265 var (obv legend with IMP). | Text | Image |
| RPC 1275 | Nero, AE23 of Patrae, Achaea, AD 66–68. 8.52 g. IMP NERO CAESAR, laureate head left / APOLLO AVGVST around, C-P across fields, Nero as Apollo standing right, playing the lyre. RPC 1275. | Text | Image |
| BMC 39 var | Hadrian. AE20, probably of Patrae, Achaea. Laureate head right / COL A A P.. Artemis running left, holding torch in right hand and bow in left; hound leaping left at foot. Aiello Coll. temp. no. 47; BMC 39 var (this reverse for Lucius Verus); Mionnet -; SNG Cop -; etc. | Text | Image |
| Mionnet Supp. IV, 948 | Hadrian, AE 7.47gr of Patrae, Achaea. HADRIANVS AVG COS III (or similar), laureate head right / COL A A PATR, Artemis standing right, holding bow on altar, hound at foot. Mionnet Supp. IV 948 (but "standing left"). | Text | Image |
| Cohen 1174 | Marcus Aurelius, AE of Patrae, Pelopponesus. M AVR ANTONINVS AVG Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / COL A A PATR, Tyche standing left by altar, holding patera and cornucopiae. Cohen III 1174. | Text | Image |
| Imhoof. Paus., 14 | Marcus Aurelius AE25 of Patrae, Achaia. M AVR ANTONIN.., laureate head right / COL A A PATR.. Ares, naked, helmeted, standing facing, head right, brandishing spear. Imhoof Pausanias, 14. | Text | Image |
| Mionnet II, 349 | Marcus Aurelius, AE25 of Patrae, Achaea. 2 Assaria. IMP CAES M AVREL ANTONINVS AVC, laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right / COL A A PATR, turreted and draped bust of Tyche right. Cohen 1177; Mionnet II, 349. | Text | Image |
| Mionnet 960v | Marcus Aurelius. AE21, 2 Assaria of Patrae, Achaea. M AVR ANTONINVS AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / COL A A PATR, Artemis standing left, holding torch and spear, between two hounds, each running left. Vienna 13881v (Commodus). | Text | Image |
| Mionnet S.IV, 967 | Marcus Aurelius, AE24 of Patrae, Achaea. M AVR ANTONINVS AVG, laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right / COL A A PATR, Tyche standing left by altar, holding patera and cornucopiae. Mionnet Supp. IV, 967; Cohen 1174. | Text | Image |
| Paris 1276 | Marcus Aurelius, AE22 of Patrae, Achaea. IMP CAES M AVREL ANTONINVS AVG, laureate head right / COL A A PATR, legionary eagle between two standards. Paris 1276; Vienna 13869 and Mionnet 975 corr. (under Lucius Verus). | Text | Image |
| SNG Cop 187 | Marcus Aurelius, AE24 of Patrae, Achaea. IMP CAES M AVREL ANTONINVS AVG, laureate head right / COL A A PATR, Priest plowing left with two oxen. SNG Cop 187. | Text | Image |
| Paris 1327 | Commodus, AE27 of Patrae, Achaia. ca. AD 182-184. 9.67 g. IMP COMMODVS ANTO AVG (some letters retrograde or inverted), laureate, cuirassed bust right, seen from the back / COL A A PATR, across the centre of a view of the harbour of Patrae, three civic buildings or temples in the upper area and a male statue flanked by two boats in the lower section. Paris 1327; Berlin 194; Vienna 13882; Price and Trell 6. | Text | Image |
| Gress 854 | Septimius Severus, AE25 of Patrai, Achaia. AD 198-205. ...SEP SEVERVS P AV or similar, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. / COL A A PATR, distyle temple with Athena standing left by altar within, holding patera and spear. Gress 854; BMC (LHS) 570. | Text | Image |
| Pausanias Q, XXII | Septimius Severus, AE25 of Patrae, Achaia. AD 193-211. 6.24 g. IMP C L SE SEVERVS PIVS (or similar), laureate and cuirassed bust right. Countermark; pileus in rectangular incuse. / (COL A A PATR), harbour scene with statue of Poseidon standing right, holding trident between two ships, harbour wall above with central archway or temple with seated deity within. Pausanias Q,XXII. | Text | Image |
| BCD 573 | Caracalla, AE of Patrai, Achaia, Peloponnesos diassaria, 9.10 g. M AVR ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM, laureate, cuirassed bust right / COL A A PATR, Hermes seated left on rock, holding caduceus, ram at foot. BCD Peloponnesos 573. | Text | Image |
| BMC 46 | Caracalla, AE23 diassaria, Patrae, Peloponnesos. 214-215 AD. M AVR ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / COL A A PATR, Artemis Laphria standing facing, looking right and leaning left on bow set on altar; at foot, hound looking right. BMC 46; BCD Peloponnesos 577.1 (this coin). | Text | Image |
| BMC 47 | Caracalla, AE of Patrai, Achaia, Peloponnesos. M AVR ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM, laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right. / COL A A PATR, Hermes seated left on rock, holding caduceus, ram at foot left. BMC 47; BCD Pelop. 575.1. | Text | Image |
| BMC 48-50 | Caracalla, AE14 of Patrai, Achaia, Peloponnesos. M AVR ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM, laureate head right. / COL A A PATR, Hermes seated left on rock, holding caduceus, ram at foot left. BMC 48-50; BCD Pelop. 575.1; SNG Cop 204. | Text | Image |
| BMC 53 | Patrai, Peloponnesos, Caracalla AE 25. M AVR ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / COL A A PATR, she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus. BMC 53; Braunschweig 878; SNG Verona Castelvecchio 1178-1180; Schottenstift 2624. | Text | Image |
| See also: | Entry for Patrai on the Digital Historia Numorum | ||
| See also | RSN Special Publication 42: Jennifer Warren: The Bronze Coinage of the Achaian Koinon Free download at the Royal Numismatic Society | ||
