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Archaios Numismatics
Description: Greek Bronze coin of Iconium (Eikonieon) in Lycaonia, Asia Minor circa. 1st Century BC.
Obverse: Laureate head of Zeus Right.
Reverse: Perseus standing facing partly left and holding harpa and severed head of Medusa. EIKO-NEWN
Mint: Iconium, Lycaonia
Size: 16 mm
Weight: 3.8 g
Ref: SNG Van Aulock 5385 var.
Condition:VF. Nice example of this type
As always, Please Use the Picture as your judge as grading is subjective.
Notes: The region of Lycaonia in Asia Minor was bounded on the west by Pisidia, on the north by Galatia, on the east by Cappadocia, and on the south by the mountainous country of Isauria or Cilicia Tracheia. It included the cities of the Κοινον Λυκαονιας, organized in the reign of Antoninus Pius, viz. Barata, Dalisandus, Derbe, Hyde, Ilistra, Laranda, and Savatra; together with Iconium, Lystra, Laodiceia Combusta, and Parlais. There is no coinage earlier than the first century B.C. Lystra and Parlais were made colonies by Augustus, Iconium by Hadrian. Coins reading ΛVΚΑΟΝΩΝ were struck by Antiochus IV of Commagene and his sons, probably at Laranda.
Iconium (Konia). Autonomous Æ of late first century B.C. Inscr., (Є)ΙΚΟΝΙЄΩΝ. Types referring to Zeus, Dionysos, and especially Perseus, the name of the city being derived from the εικων of the Gorgon. Magistrate, ΜЄΝЄΔΗΜ. ΤΙΜΟΘЄΟΥ. Imperial, Claudius to Hadrian. Inscr., ΚΛΑVΔ(Є)ΙΚΟΝΙЄΩΝ. Types—Perseus; Sarapis seated; Bust of Athena; Head of Gorgon; Head and name of M. Annius Afrinus, governor of Galatia. Colonial, Hadrian to Gallienus (with and without portraits). Inscr., COL. ICO., ICONIENSIVM (ADRIA.) COL., COL. AEL. ADR. ICONIEN., &c. Types—Perseus; Athena; Herakles; Tyche seated with river-god; Wolf and twins; Marsyas with wine-skin; &c
Excerpts From Head, Hist. Numor
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