Superb $3750.00įor more information on the catalog please visit the firm’s website. Female head left, hair in sakkos, over Tunny. Good VF $9750.00Įx Electrum and the Invention of Coinage, Ln1129 (this coin).Į1016: Ionia, c. The Cimmerians raided in Lydia and Ionia until finally defeated by Alyattes around 600 BC.Į1013: Ionia, c 630 BC. The fierce Cimmerians migrated from Scythia to conquer Phrygia around 695 BC, burning Gordium, their King Midas took poison to avoid capture. King Gyges (687-652 B.C.) created a mint in Sardis, the capital of Lydia, that produced coins in electrum, a naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver. Linear profile lion head, with double eyes, r. Good VF $6750.00Īlyattes is rendered Walwetes in Lydian, this issue is the first coin minted with a king’s name.Į1010: Lydia, Alyattes, c. Good VF $2750.00Īn example of one of the first true coins, from the origin of coinage, noted in Whitman publication as one of the “100 Greatest Ancient Coins”.Į1008: Lydia, Sadyattes, c. Large denominations of any early issues are of the greatest rarity and importance.Į1003: Ionia, c. EF $3750.00Īt the dawn of coinage Samos issued first Blank coinage with distinctive punches, then issues with raised shapes. Other coins, such as some later bronze issues, fall within a range of acceptable weights. Precious metal coins (electrum, gold, and silver) are said to be struck al pezzo (It. About the same time, cities in Ionia also began to strike electrum coins. The Lydians may have been the first to produce coins by exploiting the naturally-occurring electrum found in the local Paktolos River. The island nation never issued striated coinage, rather an eclectic mintage easily identified by their distinctive reverse punches and high weight standard.Īn important rarity and an exceptional numismatic example.Į1002: Samos, c. The flan is the metal blank upon which the design of the die is imprinted to produce a coin. During this period the Greeks moved from a currency struck in electrum (an alloy of gold and silver) to a bi-metallic one of silver and gold. The earliest coinage of Samos, in its extremely rare second highest denomination.
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