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Ancient Coins of Lycia, Anatolia

Lycia, on the southern coast of Anatolia, was first recorded in the Late Bronze Age records of ancient Egypt and the Hittite Empire. In 546 B.C. when Lycia was involuntary incorporated into the Persian Empire, the local population was decimated, and the area received an influx of Persians. Lycia fought for Persia in the Persian Wars. Intermittently free after the Greeks defeated the Achaemenid Empire, it briefly joined the Athenian Empire, it seceded and became independent, was under the Persians again, revolted again, was conquered by Mausolus of Caria, returned to the Persians, and went under Macedonian hegemony at the defeat of the Persians by Alexander the Great. Lycia was totally Hellenized under the Macedonians. The Lycian language disappeared from inscriptions and coinage. On defeating Antiochus III in 188 the Romans gave Lycia to Rhodes for 20 years, taking it back in 168 B.C. The Romans allowed home rule under the Lycian League, a federation with republican principles, which later influenced the framers of the United States Constitution. In 43 A.D. Claudius dissolved the league and made Lycia a Roman province. It was an eparchy of Byzantine Empire. A substantial Christian Greek community lived in Lycia until the 1920s when they were forced to migrate to Greece following the Greco-Turkish War.Lycia

Dynasts of Lycia, Uncertain Dynast, c. 480 - 360 B.C.

|Persian| |Empire|, |Dynasts| |of| |Lycia,| |Uncertain| |Dynast,| |c.| |480| |-| |360| |B.C.||1/3| |stater|
Lycia had a single monarch, who ruled the entire country, subject to Persian policy, from a palace at Xanthos. The monarchy was hereditary, hence the term "dynast" has come into use among English-speaking scholars. Lycian inscriptions indicate the monarch was titled khntawati. Some members of the dynasty were Iranian, but mainly it was native Lycian. The names of the dynasts are known mostly from coin inscriptions.
GA114048. Silver 1/3 stater, Müseler VIII 49 - 51; BMC Lycia p. 36, 157; SNGvA 4255; SNG Cop 32, aVF, deeply toned, weight 2.767 g, maximum diameter 14.4 mm, c. 480 - 360 B.C.; obverse facing lion's scalp; reverse triskeles within round incuse; ex Solidus Numismatik auction 102 (28 Jun 2022), lot 141; $100.00 (€94.00)
 


Lycian League, Masicytes, Lycia, 27 - 23 B.C.

|Lycia|, |Lycian| |League,| |Masicytes,| |Lycia,| |27| |-| |23| |B.C.||AE| |20|
Troxell LL 192 includes variations with ΛY, ΛYKI, MA or no inscription on the obverse. There does not appear to be an inscription on our coin, but it was perhaps just weakly struck. Almost all the specimens known to FORVM have ΛY (often ligate) on the obverse to the lower right.
RP113196. Bronze AE 20, Weber 7279 (also no inscription); Troxell LL 192; RPC Online I 3319d (4 spec); Müseler XI,61; SNG Cop 100; SNGvA 4341, F, green patina, highlighting deposits, weight 3.481 g, maximum diameter 19.7 mm, die axis 0o, Myra-Masicytes mint, time of Augustus, 27 - 23 B.C.; obverse draped bust of Artemis right, bow and quiver on shoulder, no inscription visible; reverse stag standing right on exergue line, MA above left; from the Michael Arslan Collection; $80.00 (€75.20)
 


Phaselis, Lycia, c. 250 - 220 B.C.

|Lycia|, |Phaselis,| |Lycia,| |c.| |250| |-| |220| |B.C.||AE| |10|NEW
Phaselis was founded in 690 B.C. by settlers from Rhodes. Phaselis was the one purely Greek city in Lycia, differing in language, culture, and alphabet from the adjacent cities of the region. Phaselis was under Ptolemaic rule from 209 to 197 B.C. Antiochus III formally took possession of the Egyptian territories in Anatolia through the Peace of Lysimachia in 195. Despite the vicissitudes of the area, Phaselis seems to have retained significant autonomy and struck Alexander type tetradrachms from 218 - 185 B.C. The series ended shortly after conclusion of the Apamea treaty, when Phaselis was placed under Rhodes. In 160 B.C. Phaselis was absorbed into the Lycian confederacy under Roman rule.
GB114046. Bronze AE 10, Heipp-Tamer B25 (6 spec.), BMC Lycia -, SNG Cop -, SNGvA -, VF, attractive green patina with roughness on both sides, weight 1.354 g, maximum diameter 10.2 mm, die axis 0o, Phaselis (near Tekirova, Turkey) mint, c. 250 - 220 B.C.; obverse prow of galley right, with ram; reverse stern of galley sailing right, with large aphlaston; ex Solidus Numismatik auction 105 (13 Sep 2022), lot 206; rare; $80.00 (€75.20)
 


Phaselis, Lycia, c. 190 - 167 B.C.

|Lycia|, |Phaselis,| |Lycia,| |c.| |190| |-| |167| |B.C.||AE| |21|
Athena is the Greek goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice, strategic warfare, mathematics, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, and skill. She was believed to lead soldiers into battle as the war goddess Athena Promachos. The Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis was dedicated to her, along with numerous other temples and monuments across Europe, West Asia, and North Africa. Her usual attribute is the owl and Nike is her frequent companion.
GB111741. Bronze AE 21, Heipp-Tamer B55; SNG Cop 126; SNGvA 4439; BMC Lycia p. 82, 18; Mionnet III p. 443, 69, aF, Light earthen deposits, weight 4.059 g, maximum diameter 20.6 mm, die axis 330o, Phaselis (near Tekirova, Turkey) mint, c. 190 - 167 B.C.; obverse prow of war galley right, Nike flying right above crowning acrostolium with wreath; reverse Athena standing right, wearing long chiton and helmet, aegis on left arm, wielding thunderbolt in right hand, Φ - A flanking across field below center; $60.00 (€56.40)
 


Coins of Ancient Lycia

|Lycia|, |Coins| |of| |Ancient| |Lycia|
Coins of ancient Lycia before the reign of Alexander. With an essay on the relative dates of the Lycian monuments in the British Museum.
BK23943. Coins of Ancient Lycia by Sir Charles Fellows, ex library of Alex G Malloy, hardcover, age, wear, 18 plates and descriptions, international shipping at the actual cost of postage; $36.00 (€33.84)
 







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