Top Coin Types (Greek Edition)

Roman Provincial used to be called Greek Imperial. Coins issued in Greek territory under Roman jurisdiction but administered mainly by indigenous people (with Roman overseers).

Shall we call it Greek?

It sure isn't miscellaneous (except perhaps to people who don't collect it).

Here is a drachm of Istros with the unusual Dioscuri flipped heads obverse. This example is distinctive in that the eagle and dolphin on the reverse are facing in the opposite direction of what is usually seen.





Among the Seleucid tetradrachms, none is of greater historical significance to me than the tetradrachm of Antiochus IV (Epiphanes), who in 165 BC precipitated the successful Jewish Maccabean revolt that opened the way for the Hasmonean dynasty of independent Jewish rule for about a century.

Echi - I think that is the current feeling generally, esp since the term "Roman Provincial" has replaced the older one.

So then shall we say the term "Greek coins" refers to coins of the Greek Classical and Hellenistic periods, irrespective of country of origin?


Coins that "look" Greek? That opens a can of worms. The Seaby catalogs for Greek coins include a lot of issues you are excluding, because they fit into a particular pair of chronological/ historical eras.

I will hold off on the siglos. but the replacement will probably raise questions of its own.

I think it is genuinely a grey area but like I said if the coin was minted independent of Roman influence, doesn't bear the image of an emperor/Caesar and looks like a Greek coin (head of a deity one side and perhaps something from the natural world or myth on the other)then I could accept it as being Greek - regardless if the time period suggests Rome was in charge.

I asked a similar question a while back "does this coin belong with my Greeks or my Romans?" and there is no clear cut answer in some cases.

The miscellaneous thread will be for anything not clearly Roman, not clearly Greek and not clearly medieval. I hadn't really planned for it to include Roman provincial/Greek imperials so I am easy going if these coin appear here.

One of my favourites.



Rhodes
Coin: EF Silver Drachm
Radiate head of Helios right
P O - Rose with bud, snake on omphalos in left field
Mint: (190-170 BC)
Wt./Size/Axis: 2.55g / 15mm / -
References:

Jenkins 1989, 15
HGC 6, 1457
BMC 247

Successor to the turtle, the tortoise...





Still struggling to take a decent image of this one.

here my 3 coins ,limited to the Hellenistic period , the cheapest to buy nice silver coins, I thinh.




Demetrios I soter : 162-150 BC
obv : anepigraphic,diademed head right
rev:Basileos Demetriou Soteros : cornucopiae : monograms :PA , APO , AXP .
mint : Antiochia , AXP = 162 = 152/151
AR drachm 18 mm , 3.92 gr , die axis 7 h
ref : Houghton159,SNGIsrael1279






Philippos III Arrhidaios : 323-317 BC
obv:anepigraphic , head of Herakles right , wearing lion skin
rev: Philippou : Zeus aëtophoros seated left with sceptre
controls : bee in the left field , TI below throne
AR drachm , 16 mm ; 4,21 gr , die axis : 12 h
mint :Sardes
ref : Price P101








Ariobarzanes I : 95-62 BC
obv: anepigraphic , diademed head right
rev : Basileos Ariobarzanou Philoromaiou , left monogram M I , in exergue L : helmed Athena Nikephore at left with chiton , spear and shield.
AR drachm , 160mm , 4.45 gr ,dieaxis 12 h
ref SNGCop154
mint : Caesarea (Cappadocia ) year L = 30 = 65 BC

PS : Pishpash : your magistrate is named : ANAXIDOTOS , the P - O = Rho (R) - Omikron ( O )= RO = Rhodos .albert

I'm confused. Does the value limit rule still apply?