Ancient Greek coins

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Coins struck by cities of ancient Greece

[edit] First greek coins

Electrum coin from Lydia (VI century)

[edit] Greece

[edit] Macedon

Cassander ,Coin from Macedon 306 BC

[edit] Epirus

Epirote Republic Tetrobol,238 BC

Epirote Republic Tetrobol,234 BC

Epirote Republic Tetrobol,238 BC

[edit] Boetia

Boetia ,Coin from Thebes 440 BC

[edit] Thessaly

THESSALY, Larissa ,440 BC

[edit] Crete

CRETE, Phaistos,300 BC

[edit] Attica

Athens. Archaic Obol

Athens. Tetradrachm Head of Athena r./ ΑΘΕ, owl r. (after 449 BC)

Athens. Tetradrachm Head of Athena r./ ΑΘΕ, owl r. - Classic period (ca. 393-355 BC)

New style Tetradrachm. (152/1 BC)

[edit] Thasos

Silver stater. Satyr and nymph (500-463 BC)

[edit] Aigina

Aigina: drachm. Land tortoise / Incuse, Α Ι Γ and dolphin in angles.

[edit] Corinthia

Corinth: stater. Pegasos flying l./ Head of Athena l.

[edit] Peloponnesus

Argos,90 BC

[edit] Colonies

[edit] Colonies in Asia Minor(Ionia)

Greek coin from IONIA, Klazomenai 499 BC

[edit] Colonies in the Black sea

Olbia. late 5th Century BC

[edit] Colonies in Thrace

Thrace,Abdera 480 BC

[edit] Colonies in Illyria

Dyrrachium - Drachma: Magistrates: ΚΤΗΤΟΣ & ΦΑ ΝΙΣ ΚΟΥ

Apollonia - Drachma - Magistrates: AIBATIOS / CARHNOS

[edit] Hispania

Bascunes (Pamplona ? : denarius

Ebusus (Ibiza). Circa 210-early 2nd Century BC. Æ

[edit] Italia

see: Coins of ancient Italy

[edit] Sicilia

coins of ancient Sicily

[edit] Hellenistic kingdoms

Tetradrachme Mazedonien Alexander d. Gr. (336-325 v. Chr.) mit dem Löwenfell

[edit] Baktria

O// helmeted Eukratides r. R// ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ The Dioscuri on horseback, ΕΥΚΡΑΤΙΔΟΥ in ex

O// Diademed bust of Plato r. R//: Helios, riding a quadriga. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ ΠΛΑΤΩΝΟΣ

Demetrius I of Bactria, founder of the dynasty

[edit] Seleucia

Seleucus I (Nicator), B.C. 312-280, the founder of the dynasty.

Antiochus I Soter. (co-ruler from 291, ruled 281–261 BC)
Silver. O// Head of Antiochus I. R//ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ Apollo, naked, seated on omphalos, holding arrows ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ (see: en:Antiochus I Soter)

O// Head of Antiochus IV Epiphanes. (175–164 BC)
R// ΘΕΟΥ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ ΝΙΚΗΦΟΡΟΥ Zeus Nikephoros enthroned, ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ (see: en:Antiochus IV Epiphanes)

Alexander I Balas (154–145 BC)
/ on reverse ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ. 150 – 149 BC. (see: en:Alexander I Balas)

[edit] Drawings

Aegina	Dareikos	Sybaris	Tetradrachma från Aten
Antiochos I