Kourion Complex, Coins Miscellaneous

Coins

Lydian — earliest obverse striated, reverse has 2 sq. & 1 oblong incuse depressions elektron stater egg-shaped

Drawing: three incuse punch marks arranged vertically; labels: stags head, running fox, X

Kroisos intr. double currency of silver & gold Κροίσειος στατήρ (gold) obverse foreparts of bull & lion facing reverse oblong incuse in 2 parts

Darius Hystaspes (522-485) Δαρικος (Daric) gold stater: obverse king bearded, crowned, long robe, kneeling on right knee. quiver on back, holds spear & bow.

Electrum coins at Miletos (couchant lion, head turned back) Ephesos (stag & bee), Klazomenai (forepart of winged boar), Phocêa (seal), Chios (sphinx), Samos (forepart of bull looking back). Electrum stater at Hallicarnassus has earliest inscription. obverse stag feeding — Φάνος ἐμὶ σῆμα ; reverse (drawing) Monetary convention 410 Phocaea & Mytilene

Cyzicus elektron coins with tunny fish. Cyzicene equal in value to daric — half gold half alloy (252 grains)

Silver maybe even before Kroisos Aegina Cartheia in Keos (amphora) Siphnos (dove) Delos (2 dolphins) Naxos (kantharos) Paros (goat & dolphin) also Miletos (lions head, fore. of lion looking back Kyme (forep. of horse) Kyzikos (head & tail of tunny) Dardanos (cock) Chios (sphinx) Cos (crab) Many in Asia Minor in middle of VI cent., others not till early V Miletus (forep. of lion turned back; lion looking at star) Ephesos (bee & stag) Kolophon (lyre) Klazomenai (fore. of winged boar, swan, Anaxagoras) Erythrai (club & bow in case) Knidos (fore. of lion; head of Aphrod.) Lesbos: Mytilene (silver: calfs head; potin: 2 calves' h.s facing, tree between) Methymna (silver: boar & head of Pallas; potin: 2 boars' h.s. facing) Potin potin — only 40% silver Chios (sphinx & amphora) Naxos (head of satyr; kantharos)

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Tenedos (janiform head; doubleaxe) Grynon (oyster) Kalchedon (ox standing on ear of corn) Kyzikos (tunny) Byzantion (ox on dolphin) Olbia (sea eagle carrying off fish) Pantikapaion (lion's scalp facing)

Earliest coins on mainland elektron Aegina earliest — Pheidon (750 or 600) in silver & elektron (sea Chalkis (wheel) Eretria (Gorgon's head, bull's head)

Euboic unit — early for gold - later for silver Aeginetic " — silver & less valuable

V cent. silver coins everywhere: IV bronze Solon struck 1^st silver in Athens: drachma = sheep, goat, med. of Athens (head of Athena, rev. owl) Corinth (Pegasos; head of Ath. on staters, of Aphr. on drachmae Argos (wolf, forep. of w., w.'s head) Sikyon (chimaera, dove) Arcadia (Zeus) Mantinea (bear) Elis (Head of Zeus, h. of Hera, eagle with prey, thunderbolt) Phokis, Boiotia, & Thessally had federal coinage Phokis (bulls' heads facing) Boiotia (Boiotian shield) Thessally (horse, youth struggling with bull) Euboia (nymph, cow's head) Eretria (Gorgon's head, bull's head) Karystos (cow suckling calf, bull lying down, cock) Histiaia (vine, bull, head of Maenad) Korkyra (cow suckling calf) Opuntian Lokrians (Ajax Oileus) Ozolian " (evening star) Tarentum (Taras on dolphin, horseman) Kroton (tripod, cuttlefish) Sybaris (bull) Thurii (bull) Metapontum (ear of corn) Poseidonia (Poseidon) Rhegium & Messana (mule-car, hare) Syrakuse (quadriga, biga, keles, head of Arethusa, [illegible] dolphin cuttle-fish Leontinoi ([illegible] lion's head)