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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Napata, post: 2330057, member: 76197&quot;]Cilician Tetartemorions</p><p><br /></p><p>In Asia Minor, Cilicia has many interesting variants of the satrapal coinage. The rarest amongst them are often these little 5-6 mm coins barely weighting 0.14 g on average. I think I have forgotten to post that following one among the others I have posted in another thread.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Troxell &amp; Kagan Type #4 Variant</b></p><p>Obverse: Typical Running-Kneeling Archer</p><p>Reverse: Bearded royal head assimilated to the Persian king. </p><p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/Zzq0QE8.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/RjhdM5v.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/mQljIgE.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/tzd7msf.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Other variants seen elsewhere:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.coinarchives.com/4579b3deafd92dc365c326a6c50f20dc/img/roma/e20/image00365.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://www.coinarchives.com/c3eac8e6c16af313349b5bb859dad8b3/img/pecunem/036/image00229.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://www.timelineauctions.com/upload/images/items/6026.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/cilicia/uncertain/Troxell-Kagan_04.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>===================================================</p><p><br /></p><p>Then, the two other tetartemorions I have posted elsewhere while it should be here for all things Achaemenid-themed.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Troxell &amp; Kagan Type #2b</b></p><p>Obverse: Running Archer iconography.</p><p>Reverse: Facing Apollo (or female facing figure). </p><p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/49FQ8HE.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/1dUyVmi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/A3844vD.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/3ymcq4n.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Troxell &amp; Kagan Type #2a</b></p><p>Obverse: Off strike of the running-kneeling archer where upper body is visible.</p><p>Reverse: Facing Apollo trying to emerge his nose out of the dirt.</p><p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/gRIPGjb.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/Hj9DkRL.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/j4U7Gzs.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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