COINS BY CITY: An Alphabetical A to Z of Coinage

State, City: Pisidia, Isinda

Laureate head of Zeus right
ISIN - beneath rider on horseback galloping right, wielding spear, coiled serpent at lower right, E in upper left field
Mint: Isinda (21-5 BC)
Wt./Size: 5.48g / 19mm
References:

• SNG Cop 158
• RPC I 3512O
• Aulock Pisidien 1 593-595

 

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Okay => well, I'll toss-in the first Eagle & Dolphin offering ...

Istrus, Moesia
400-350 BC

 

Itanos, Crete, AR stater, c 330-300 BC, 22.5 mm, 11.96 g, 12h. OBV: Head of Athena to left, wearing Attic helmet decorated with palmettes and volutes. REV: Eagle standing to left with head reverted; triton holding trident in field to right; usual die break on beak. Boston Supplement, 119 (same dies); Hess-Leu 1959, Lot 227 (same dies); Jameson 2128 (same obverse die); Le Rider pl. viii, 15 (same dies); Dewing 2040; Sear GC 3319 (£750).

 

Nice! You don't often see Cretan coins as well preserved as this one.

 

This Istros has the left head upright:

MOESIA, Istrus
AR Drachm
4th Century B.C.
5.80 grams,
Obv: Inverted Heads
Rev: Sea-eagle on dolphin
IΣTPIH above, E between eagle
& dolphin, and A below.
Grade: gVF as confirmed by NGC
with 5/5 strike and 2/5 surface
Other: Private sale January 2014

 

I don't think I have from an "I" mint. So I will just sit back and enjoy.

 

An eagle and dolphin here too I am afraid.

Istros, Silver stater
Obv:- Facing male heads, left inverted
Rev:- ΙΣΤΡΙΗ, sea-eagle grasping a dolphin with talons, A below dolphin
Minted in Istros, 400 - 350 B.C.
Reference:– AMNG I 416, SNG Cop 192 var (right head inverted), SGCV I 1669

 

Unfortunately, me too.

The male heads and dolphin type seems heavily represented---and I just lost a mini-bidding war over one a few weeks ago...

Gorgeous coins all!!

 

No sinking I either.. nice coins!!

 

I try not to repeat cities already used but this is an AE from Istros with no heads.

 

Julia Domna

 

IOL-CAESAREA

KINGDOM OF MAURETANIA, Juba II
AR Denarius
3.14g, 17.6mm
Iol-Caesarea mint, 25 BC - 24 AD
MAA 95; SNG Cop 579
O: REX IVBA, Diademed head right.
R: Cornucopia; transverse scepter in background, crescent to upper right.
Ex Ronald J. Hansen Collection
Notes: Iol was the old Phoenician name of this coastal North African city. Juba II renamed it Caesarea when he made it the capital of the Kingdom of Mauretania, where he ruled with wife Cleopatra Selene, the daughter of Mark Antony and Cleopatra. I decided to include it here since it's occasionally referred to as Iol-Caesarea, and "I" seems to be needing some help.

 

Very nice Z

 

ILIUM

SALONINA
AE22
4.96g, 22.2mm
TROAS, Ilium, 253 - 268 AD
Bellinger, Troy, T294; SNG Munich 279; SNG Cop 443.
O: CAΛΩNINA CEB, diademed and draped bust right.
R: IΛ-IE-ΩN, helmeted and cuirassed bust of Athena right, wearing aegis.
Notes: Ilium was the Latin name for Ilion, better known as Troy, the great Bronze Age city. The Trojan War is believed to have occured in the 13th or 12th century BC, and the 10-year siege and eventual fall of Troy serves as the setting for Homer's epic poem Iliad.

 

=> ummm, that's it for I-coins?

 

I don't believe there was a letter J in either ancient Greek or Latin...? So, K is next?

 

I have Jerusalem????

 

I would say go ahead and post Jerusalem coins now, but I'm not moderating this thread. I don't know if it was even a city in Greek times, but it was known as Aelia Capitolina by the Romans from the 2nd century AD.

 

Thanks ancientnut, I will pass. I will do a bit more research, I have no idea where I got the designation from. It is the parasol and barley variety.

 

I don't know if Zumbly is around, but this is as good a time as any. No strict rules about it and I would like to see your coins!