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Silver Persian siglos, no. Izmir 2844, from a hoard. Obverse. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Silver Persian siglos, no. Izmir 2844, from a hoard. Reverse. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Silver Persian siglos, no. Izmir 2845, from a hoard. Obverse. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Silver Persian siglos, no. Izmir 2845, from a hoard. Reverse. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Silver Persian siglos, no. Izmir 2846, from a hoard. Obverse. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Silver Persian siglos, no. Izmir 2846, from a hoard. Reverse. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Hoard of Coins from Old Smyrna/Bayraklı: Three Silver Persian Sigloi
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 32_4-32_6
- Date
- Last quarter of the 6th c BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Museum
- Izmir, Archaeological Museum, 2844-2846
- Museum Inventory No.
- 2844-2846
- Material
- Silver
- Object Type
- Coin
- Coin Denomination
- Siglos
- 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
- Three silver sigloi of Achaemenid type. Obverse: kneeling or running figure of the Persian king, facing right, wearing kidaris and kandys, drawing his bow. Reverse: oblong punch. 2844: diameter 0.0155, weight 4.92 g (Robinson) / 4.93 g (Aydemir et al); 2845: diameter 0.016, weight 5.23 g (Robinson) / 5.24 g (Aydemir et al); 2846: diameter 0.0145, weight 5.20 g. “Medium” (Robinson)/ “good condition” (Aydemir et al).
- Comments
- The later Type II Achaemenid sigloi represented by these coins show the King in an aggressive, running pose with bow drawn at the ready. A coin of this type was used as a seal on a tablet from Persepolis, dated to 500 BC, showing that this type of coin was in use by that time (Root 1988).
- See Also
- Kroll, “Coins of Sardis”.
- Bibliography
- Cook 1958, 30, pl. 3a; Akurgal 1961, 151, fig. 106; Robinson 1958; Robinson 1960, 32 nos. 18-20; Aydemir et al. 1997, 24, nos. 18-20.
- Author
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