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Home ▸ Catalog ▸ |Greek Coins| ▸ |Geographic - All Periods| ▸ |Anatolia| ▸ |Pamphylia| ▸ |Other Pamphylia||View Options:   | | | Pamphylia, was a small region on the southern coast of Anatolia, extending about 120 km (75 miles) between Lycia and Cilicia, and north from the Mediterranean only about 50 km (30 miles) to mountainous Pisidia. The Pamphylians were a mixture of aboriginal inhabitants, immigrant Cilicians and Greeks who migrated there from Arcadia and Peloponnese in the 12th century B.C. The region first enters history in a treaty between the Hittite Great King Tudhaliya IV and his vassal, where the city "Parha" (Perge) is mentioned. Pamphylia was subdued by the Mermnad kings of Lydia and afterward passed in succession under the dominion of Persian and Hellenistic monarchs. After the defeat of Antiochus III in 190 B.C. they were annexed by the Romans to the dominions of Eumenes of Pergamum; but somewhat later they joined with the Pisidians and Cilicians in piracy, and Side became the chief center and slave mart of these freebooters. Pamphylia was for a short time included in the dominions of Amyntas, king of Galatia, but after his death was absorbed into a Roman province. The Pamphylians became largely Hellenized in Roman times, and have left magnificent memorials of their civilization at Perga, Aspendos, and Side. |
Possible lifetime issue with beautiful style.SH27864. Gold stater, Price -, Müller Alexander -, cf. Price 2948 ff. for ΔI symbol on tetradrachm and drachm, cf. Price table IX 2957 for style and iconography, EF, weight 8.559 g, maximum diameter 17.5 mm, die axis 180o, uncertain (Side, Pamphylia?) mint, c. 325 - 320 B.C.; obverse head of Athena right in crested Corinthian helmet decorated with griffin; reverse BA-ΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY, Nike standing left holding wreath and ship's mast, DI monogram lower left; very rare; SOLD
Macedonian Kingdom, Alexander the Great, 336 - 323 B.C.
Possibly struck during Alexander's lifetime.SH33205. Gold stater, Price 2963, Müller Alexander 1477, gVF, weight 8.566 g, maximum diameter 18.4 mm, die axis 0o, uncertain (Side, Pamphylia?) mint, c. 325 - 320 B.C.; obverse head of Athena right wearing earring, necklace, and crested Corinthian helmet decorated with a coiled snake, hair in ringlets; reverse BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY, Nike standing left, wreath in right hand, stylus in left, ΦI and Λ lower left; mint luster in recesses; SOLD
Commodus, March or April 177 - 31 December 192 A.D., Sillyum, Pamphylia
Mên was a moon god, ruler of paradise and the underworld.SH56886. Bronze AE 37, SNGvA 4873 (same obverse die), SNG BnF -, SNG Cop -; cf. RPC Online 5724 (different bust and obverse legend), gF, weight 30.081 g, maximum diameter 37.2 mm, die axis 37.2o, Sillyum mint, obverse AYT KAICAP Λ AYPHΛ KOMOΔOC, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind, c/m Artemis Anaitis in oval punch; reverse CIΛΛYEΩN, Mên on horseback right, crescent behind shoulders, wearing a Phrygian cap; ex Gemini VI, lot 832; ex Boston Museum of Fine Arts inventory no. 63.859; purchased from Hesperia Art Bulletin XXV, 80, in 1963 by the Theodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Zoe Wilbour; rare; SOLD
Gallienus, August 253 - September 268 A.D., Magydus, Pamphylia
The first ever coin from Magydus handled by Forum!
Magydus was a small town on the coast between Attaleia and Perga, occasionally mentioned by ancient geographers, and on numerous coins of the imperial era. Its site was probably at modern Lara in the Ottoman vilayet of Konia, where there are ruins of a small man-made harbor.SH54378. Bronze AE 30, SNGvA 4645; SNG BnF 321; SNG Cop 298; BMC Lycia p. 117, 9, Choice gVF, weight 17.889 g, maximum diameter 30.3 mm, die axis 180o, Magydus mint, obverse AYT KAI ΠO ΛI ΓAΛΛIHNO CEB, laureate and draped bust right, seen from behind, globe below; reverse MAΓY-ΔEΩN, Tyche standing slightly left, kalathos on head, rudder in right hand, cornucopia in left hand, I upper left field, M - A across fields; an attractive large bronze from a rarer city; rare; SOLD
Tranquillina, Augusta, May 241 - 25 February 244 A.D., Wife of Gordian III, Etenna, Pamphylia Prima
Etenna was a city in the late Roman province of Pamphylia Prima. Centuries earlier, it was considered within Pisidia, as by Polybius, who wrote that in 218 B.C. the people of Etenna "who live in the highlands of Pisidia above Side" provided 8000 hoplites to assist the Seleucid usurper Achaeus. There is no other mention of Etenna until the record of the participation of bishops of Etenna in the ecumenical councils of the 4th century A.D. However, there are examples of its fine silver coinage of the 4th and 3rd century B.C. and of its bronze coins from the 1st century B.C. to the 3rd century A.D. Etenna has been identified with the rather nondescript ruins on a steep hill 250-500 meters north of the modern village of Sirt, north of Manavgat, Antalya Province, Turkey. They have not been systematically excavated, but include remains of city walls, a roofed reservoir, baths, two basilicas, a church and rock tombs.RP88903. Bronze AE 32, vA Pisidiens 633 - 635 (same dies, 4 spec.), SNG BnF 1551, SNG Cop -, BMC Lycia -, RPC Online -, Lindgren -, F, countermark obverse lower right, porous, central depressions, weight 15.918 g, maximum diameter 32.3 mm, die axis 0o, Etenna (Sirt, Antalya Province, Turkey) mint, May 241 - 25 Feb 244 A.D.; obverse CAB TPANKVΛΛEINA C, draped bust right, wearing stephane; reverse ETENNEΩN, Tyche seated left on rocks, kalathos on head, stalks of grain downward in right hand; only one sale recorded on Coin Archives in the last two decades; very rare; SOLD
Tiberius, 19 August 14 - 16 March 37 A.D., Magydus, Pamphylia
Magydus was a small town on the coast between Attaleia and Perga, occasionally mentioned by ancient geographers, and on numerous coins of the imperial era. Its site was probably at modern Lara in the Ottoman vilayet of Konia, where there are ruins of a small man-made harbor. RPC Online notes, Ahmet Tolga Tek wrote, the countermark was used in Pamphylia on coins of Phaselis, Perge and Side. RP114037. Bronze AE 18, RPC I 3367B, c/m: Howgego 432, aVF, green patina, light earthen deposits, marks, weight 4.206 g, maximum diameter 17.6 mm, die axis 0o, Magydus (Lara, Turkey) mint, obverse TIBEPIOC KAICAP, laureate head right; countermark: eight pointed star in a round punch; reverse MAΓYDEWN - H (year 8?), Jugate helmeted busts (Dioscuri?) right; zero sales of this type recorded on Coin Archives in the last two decades; extremely rare; SOLD
Sillyon, Pamphylia, 3rd Century B.C.
Sillyon (or Sillyum) was a relatively unimportant city but a significant fortress. According to one legend, it was founded as a colony from Argos; another holds that it was founded, along with Side and Aspendos, by the seers Mopsos, Calchas and Amphilochus after the Trojan War. Sillyon is first mentioned in c. 500 BC by Pseudo-Scylax. From 469 B.C., it became part of the Athenian-led Delian League. It is mentioned in the Athenian tribute lists from c. 450 B.C. and again in 425 B.C., and then disappears again from the historical record until 333 B.C., when Alexander the Great unsuccessfully besieged it. It was well-fortified and had a strong garrison of mercenaries and "native barbarians," so Alexander, pressed for time, abandoned the siege after the first attempt at storming it failed. The city was extensively rebuilt under the Seleucids, especially its theater. Later, when most of western Asia Minor was subject to the Kingdom of Pergamon, Sillyon remained a free city by a decision of the Roman Senate.GB73951. Bronze AE 16, BMC Lycia p. 165, 1; Lindgren-Kovacs 1178; SNG BnF 952; SNGvA 4567 var. (star over thunderbolt left), SNG Cop -, VF, weight 2.745 g, maximum diameter 15.7 mm, die axis 0o, Sillyon (near Serik, Turkey) mint, 3rd century B.C.; obverse bearded head of Ares right, wearing crested helmet; reverse ΣEΛYNIYΣ, Apollo(?) standing left, nude, right hand extended, rolled chlamys in left, thunderbolt in left field; rare; SOLD
Tranquillina, Augusta, May 241 - 25 February 244 A.D., Attalea, Pamphylia
This is the Lindgren plate coin.RP01779. Bronze AE 30, Lindgren 1093 (this coin), SNGvA 4640, BMC Lycia -, aF, large pit on lower obverse, weight 21.78 g, maximum diameter 29.8 mm, die axis 0o, Attalia mint, May 241 - 25 Feb 244 A.D.; obverse CABEI TPANKYΛΛEINA C or sim., diademed and draped bust right, crescent behind shoulders; reverse ATTAΛEΩN, Athena standing facing, head left, leaning against shield with left hand; ex Lindgren Collection; SOLD
Marcus Aurelius, 7 March 161 - 17 March 180 A.D., Attalea, Pamphylia
Attaleia (or Attalea or Attalia), in Lydia on the Lykos River, was founded by Attalos II of Pergamon.RP114002. Bronze AE 20, RPC Online IV.3 4054 (1 spec.) = Baydur 225 = SNG Cop 290; SNG BnF -; SNG Pfälzer –, F, dark green patina with highlighting orange earthen deposits, weight 5.801 g, maximum diameter 20.1 mm, die axis 225o, Attalea (Yanantepe, Turkey) mint, obverse [...] - ANTΩNINOC, laureate bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder; reverse ATTAΛEΩ-N (clockwise from above, the N behind), draped bust of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet; ex CNG e-auction 543 (2 Aug 2023), lot 303; only one specimen known to RPC Online, only this coin on CoinArchives; extremely rare; SOLD
Sillyon, Pamphylia, 3rd Century B.C.
Sillyon (or Sillyum) was a relatively unimportant city but a significant fortress. According to one legend, it was founded as a colony from Argos; another holds that it was founded, along with Side and Aspendos, by the seers Mopsos, Calchas and Amphilochus after the Trojan War. Sillyon is first mentioned in c. 500 BC by Pseudo-Scylax. From 469 B.C., it became part of the Athenian-led Delian League. It is mentioned in the Athenian tribute lists from c. 450 B.C. and again in 425 B.C., and then disappears again from the historical record until 333 B.C., when Alexander the Great unsuccessfully besieged it. It was well-fortified and had a strong garrison of mercenaries and "native barbarians," so Alexander, pressed for time, abandoned the siege after the first attempt at storming it failed. The city was extensively rebuilt under the Seleucids, especially its theater. Later, when most of western Asia Minor was subject to the Kingdom of Pergamon, Sillyon remained a free city by a decision of the Roman Senate.GY113959. Bronze AE 20, SNG Cop 437, SNG BnF 956, SNG Pfälzer 901, F, well-centered strikes, weight 4.726 g, maximum diameter 19.6 mm, die axis 0o, Sillyon (near Serik, Turkey) mint, 3rd century B.C.; obverse laureate head of Apollo right; reverse ΣEΛYNIYΣ (N reversed), Zeus seated left on low throne, holding staff in his left hand and eagle standing right with closed wings in his right; thunderbolt before throne; ethnic behind, running downwards; an overall decent example of a rare and early Sillyon type!; rare; SOLD
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