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Silver croeseid half-stater, no. Izmir 2842, from a hoard. Obverse. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Silver croeseid half-stater, no. Izmir 2842, from a hoard. Reverse. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Silver croeseid half-stater, no. Izmir 2843, from a hoard. Obverse. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Silver croeseid half-stater, no. Izmir 2843, from a hoard. Reverse. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Hoard of Coins from Old Smyrna/Bayraklı: Two Silver Croeseid Half-Staters
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 32_1-32_2
- Date
- Second half of the 6th c BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Museum
- Izmir, Archaeological Museum, 2842-2843
- Museum Inventory No.
- 2842-2843
- Material
- Silver
- Object Type
- Coin
- Coin Denomination
- Half stater
- Coin Mint
- Sardis
- Issuers
- Officina
- Has Mint Mark
- Has Control Mark
- Has Monogram
- Has Countermark
- Hoard
- Monograph 13 Catalog No.
- Site
- Old Smyrna/Bayraklı
- Description
- Two silver croeseid half-staters. Obverse: confronted foreparts of lion and bull. Reverse: two punches. Weight: no. 32.1: 5.20 g, “worn” (Robinson) / 5.10 g, “good condition” (Aydemir et al). No. 32.2: 5.29 g, “medium worn” (Robinson) / 5.21 g, “good condition” (Aydemir et al). Diameter 1.55 cm (both).
- Comments
- A coin hoard found by the Anglo-Turkish excavation at Old Smyrna (Bayraklı) in 1951 includes coins of Lydian, Achaemenid Persian, and Greek types. The hoard was found in a lydion (No. 33), in an archaeological context dated to between 500 and 480 BC. The Lydian coins are stylistically late, the lion and bull heads are stylized and simplified, compared to the earlier silver coins such as Nos. 30 and 29 (Styles E and F, according to Naster 1965 and Nimchuk 2000). They were minted during the Persian period in the second half of the sixth century BC.
- See Also
- Kroll, “Coins of Sardis”.
- Bibliography
- Cook 1958, 30, pl. 3a; Akurgal 1961, 151, fig. 106; Robinson 1958; Robinson 1960, 32 nos. 15-16; Aydemir et al. 1997, 24, nos. 15-16.
- Author
- NDC