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Studies in
Ancient Coinage from Turkey
Edited for the ROYAL NUMISMATIC SOCIETY SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS and the
BRITISH INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AT ANKARA MONOGRAPHS
by R. F. BLAND
STUDIES IN
ANCIENT COINAGE FROM
TURKEY EDITED BY
RICHARD ASHTON
ROYAL NUMISMATIC SOCIETY SPECIAL PUBLICATION NO. 29
BRITISH INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AT ANKARA MONOGRAPH NO. 17
LONDON 1996
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Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication No. 29 British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Monograph No. 17 ISBN 0 901405 33 7 ISSN 0969 0007
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Contents CONTRIBUTORS
EDITOR'S PREFACE
1.
A hoard of Sigloi from Bayrakli by pinar aydemir
2.
The Candarh Hoard of New Style Athenian Silver by PINAR AYDEMIIR AND MARTIN PRICE
3.
1 3
5
Anatolian War-Sickles and the Coinage of Etenna by NICHOLAS VICTOR SEKUNDA
5.
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A Hoard of Hellenistic Silver Coins of Myndos, Halikarnassos and Knidos by M. TEVFIK GOKTURK
4.
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9
A Collection of Ancient Coins mostly Acquired in the Hellespont Area by AHMET TOLGA TEK AND MELIH ARSLAN
19
6.
A Hoard of Coins of Tabai and Adramytion by RICHARD ashton
29
7.
The Manyas Hoard of Denarii by MELiH arslan
31
8.
The Kugakkaya Hoard of Aurei by AY§E ERGEg
37
9.
A Rhodian Bronze Hoard of the Late Second Century AD by RICHARD ashton
10.
A Third Century AD Hoard of Bronzes, principally of Alexandria Troas by MELiH ARSLAN
11.
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A Hoard of Coins of Zeugma and Antioch from the Mid-Third Century AD by MELIH ARSLAN
12.
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The Bronze Coinage of Gordian III from Caesarea in Cappadocia by ROGER BLAND
49
13.
Evidence for Ancient Repairs to Dies by KEVIN BUTCHER
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14.
The Ihsaniye Hoard of Antoniniani by ILHAN temizsoy
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15.
The Kapulukaya Hoard of Solidi by MELiH ARSLAN
16.
Greek and Greek Imperial Coins Found during the (Jankinkapi Excavations at Ankara by MELiH arslan
17.
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The Ancient Coins in Amasra Museum by STANLEY IRELAND in association with soner atesogullari
115
18.
The Coins from Tille by CHRIS lightfoot
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19.
The Coins from Satala by CHRIS LIGHTFOOT
147
20.
A Small Collection from Gaziantep
151
Part I by RICHARD ASHTON Part II by CYRIL MANGO AND MARLIA MUNDELL MANGO
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Contributors Melih Arslan
Numismatist, Museum of Anatolian Civilisations, Ankara
Richard Ashton
Formerly Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London
Soner Ate§ogullan
Assistant Director, Amasra Museum
Pmar Aydemir
Archaeologist, Izmir Archaeological Museum
Roger Bland
Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum
Kevin Butcher
American University of Beirut
Ayse Ergec,
Archaeologist, Gaziantep Museum
M. Tevfik Goktiirk
Numismatist, Museum of Anatolian Civilisations, Ankara
Stanley Ireland
Lecturer in Classics, University of Warwick
Chris Lightfoot
Formerly Department of Archaeology and History of Art, Bilkent University, Ankara
Cyril Mango
Formerly Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature, University of Oxford
Marlia Mundell Mango
Lecturer in Byzantine Archaeology and Art, University of Oxford
Martin Price (f)
Formerly Department of Coins and Medals, the British Museum, and Director, British School at Athens
Nicholas Sekunda
Defence School of Languages, Lodz, Poland
Ahmet Tolga Tek
Research Assistant, University of Anatolia, Eskisehir
Ilhan Temizsoy
Director, Museum of Anatolian Civilisations, Ankara
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Editor's Preface The principal purpose of this volume is to make accessible the work of Turkish scholars in the
field of ancient numismatics, both by translation of articles already published in Turkish periodicals and by the presentation for the first time of other material in Turkish museums and registered private collections. Several British scholars have also either contributed their own
work or collaborated with their Turkish colleagues in joint articles. The papers derived from articles already published in Turkish periodicals are not exact translations, for the authors have made revisions to their original texts, and I have exercised a certain amount of editorial licence,
not least to cater for the difference in readership between the original periodical and that assumed for this volume.
Where possible, I have followed the practice of BIAA publications by using the 'Harvard' system for recording references. However, if applied in its full rigour to numismatic references, it becomes cumbersome in the extreme, and I have not hesitated to replace it, where appropriate and at a cost of some inconsistency, with standard numismatic usage. Weights are given in g(rammes), and die-axes are recorded either in degrees or by numbers representing the hours of the clock-face.
Particular thanks go to Melih Arslan, who has made no fewer than six contributions to this
volume; and to Chris Lightfoot, pioneering editor of an earlier similar collection of essays (Lightfoot 1991c), who has not only contributed two articles to the present volume, but has also done much to stimulate and organise the production of material from Turkish colleagues.
Richard Ashton
September 1995
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1. A Hoard of Sigloi from Bayrakli Pinar Aydemir Plate 1
This hoard of 10 sigloi was found in 1986 in a pot during excavations at Bayrakli (Old Smyrna) under the direction of Professor Ekrem Akurgal, who has kindly given me permission to publish it. They are now deposited in Izmir Archaeological Museum under inventory numbers 12,315-12,324.
Catalogue Inv. No.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
12,315 12,317 12,316 12,318 12,319 12,320 12,324 12,321 12,322 12,323
Weight 5.55g 5.36g 5.63g 5.40g 5.44g 5.49g 5.51g 5.51g 5.53g 5.57g
Type1 Illb (late) Illb (late) IV (late) IV (late) IV (late) IV (late) IV (late) IV (late) IV (late) IV (late)
The relatively unworn state of the coins, and the absence of countermarks, punch-marks and chisel-cuts, indicate that the coins had not been in circulation for long before the burial of the hoard. The mixture of type Illb and IV coins, and the preponderance of type IV over type Illb,
suggest a date of burial in the first quarter of the fourth century BC.2 This is consistent with the archaeological context and the pot in which the hoard was concealed.
1 Classification is that established by Carradice 1987: 76-8. 2 Carradice 1987: 85-6.
2. The Qandarh Hoard of New Style Athenian Silver Pinar Aydemir and Martin Price Plates 1-4
This hoard of Athenian New Style coins was first uncovered on 30 April 1992 by a workman digging new water mains in Bakirkuyu Street in the village of (TJandarh (ancient Pitane in Aeolis) in the Dikili district of Izmir province. He found 15 tetradrachms and 1 drachm in the loose soil on the side of his trench, and brought them to Izmir Archaeological Museum for sale. The museum immediately embarked on a rescue excavation at the site, first sieving the soil from the workman's trench, and then excavating an area of 7 by 5 metres at the spot. At the end of 9 days' digging a further 29 tetradrachms and 13 drachms were recovered. The hoard thus comprises a total of 58 coins, of which 14 are drachms, the remainder tetradrachms. All are in
the Izmir Archaeological Museum under inventory numbers 22,869-22,926. The 16 coins originally purchased by the museum are indicated in the descriptions here with the sign °. The reference T. is to Thompson 1961, with the chronology revised according to her statement in ANS Museum Notes 29 (1984): 29, ed. note. The brief description here of the varieties gives the inscription naming the moneyers, followed by the letters on the amphora and in the exergue (separated by semicolons), followed by the symbol.
Catalogue No.
Den.
Wt.
Inv.
Reverse variety
Ref.
TAAY EXE; ; bust of Helios.
T.307-11
AQ AIO XAP; A; lion forepart r. ANTIOX KAP EIP; A ; elephant head r. ITOAE AAKE; to 1. hydria?; to r., AIO.
T.402c
Early period 1°
DR
4.80g. 22,85
Middle period 2 DR 4.13g. 22.918 3 DR 4.04g. 22.919 4 DR 4.10g. 22.920
T.394d T.var. Obv.die = T.473d
5
DR
A