Before his battle against the Persian Dareios, Alexander III fixed torches between the horns of several goats and moved forward during the night. The Persians thought the advancing troops were larger than they were, became frightened and were beaten. On the site, Alexander founded a city and called it Aigeai (city of goats).
Bloesch 32 Sear 5513-5515 | Aegeae, Cilicia, AE unit, 160-120 BC. Turreted head of Tyche right / AIΓEAIΩN, horse's head left, ATΔ monogram in right field. Bloesch 32-37; SNG von Aulock 5442; Paris 54; Mionnet III, 8. | Text | Image |
Bloesch 57 Sear 5513-5515 | Aegeae, Cilicia, AE unit, 160-120 BC. Turreted head of Tyche right / AIΓEAIΩN, horse's head left, ΩΠA monogram in right field. Bloesch 57-58; SNG Cop 28; Vienna 36740; Cox Adana 69 (this coin). | Text | Image |
Bloesch 178 | Aigeai, Cilicia. Ca 102-1 BC. AE 2/3 unit (4.13 gm). Helmeted head of Athena right / AIΓEAIΩN THΣ IEΡAΣ KAI AYTONOMOY, goat kneeling left. YΩΠAΡ monogram above its back. Bloesch 178. | Text | Image |
Bloesch 190 | Aigeai, Cilicia, civic issue, AE15. 130-77 BC. Bearded head of Herakles right / AIΓEAIΩN THΣ IEΡAΣ KAI AYTONOMOY to left and right of club and bow in bowcase. Δ over ΘH monogram in left field. Bloesch 190; SNG Cop. 30. | Text | Image |
BMC 1 | Aegeae, Cilicia, AE21 unit, 160-120 BC. Turreted head of Tyche right / AIΓEAIΩN, horse's head left, TΡA monogram in right field. BMC 1; Bloesch 38-44; SNG von Aulock 8663; Winterthur 4521-4522. | Text | Image |
BMC 8 | Aigeai, Cilicia, AE18, 6.27g. Dated Year 14, (34-33 BC). Veiled head of Tyche right / AIΓEAIωN, horse's head left, date ΔI and EΡ below. BMC 8; Bloesch 260; Paris 55; Waddington 4062. | Text | Image |
BMC 10 | Aegeae, Cilicia. Civic issue, 130-77 BC. 2.76 g. Bearded head of Herakles right / AIΓEAIΩN THΣ IEΡAΣ KAI AYTONOMOY above and beneath club and bowcase. HΦ monogram in right field. BMC 10; Bloesch 198-199; SNG Levante 1672. | Text | Image |
BMC 20 | Aigeai, Cilicia, AE26. Head of Asklepios right wearing taenia, serpent-entwined staff to right / AIΓEAIΩN HΡ FH BOH, Hygieia standing left, feeding serpent from patera. BMC 20; Levha IV no.5. | Text | Image |
NYS XIV, 167 | Aigeai, Cilicia, Bi. Tetradrachm, time of Caracalla, 211-217 AD. 11.80g. AIΓEAIΩN ANTΩNEINO YΠOΛEΩC, Bearded, draped bust of Asklepios right, wearing narrow taenia, serpent-entwined staff at his left shoulder / MAKEΔONIKHC EYΓENΡICTHC ΘEOΦIΛO, Octastyle temple of Asklepios on steps, statue of Asklepios within, wearing himation, holding snake-entwined staff; in the pediment, eagle flying left; in the field, date G-S/C (year 263); goat recumbant right between two dots in exergue. cf Prieur 723 (same obverse); Bloesch 307 ff (ditto). Unpublished. | Text | Image |
RPC 1770 | Aigeai, Cilicia, AE18, Pseudo-autonomous, dated year 115, 68-69 AD, time of Galba to Vespasian. Head of Perseus right, wearing cap and large Gorgoneion surmounted by a pecking bird, harpa to left / AIΓEAIΩN EIΡ, helmeted bust of Athena left, wearing aegis, spear and AY-like monogram to right. SNG Levante 1700; RPC 1770. | Text | Image |
RPC 4036B | Aigeai, Cilicia, AE29, semi-autonomous issue, Dated local year 87, AD 40-41, struck under Caligula. 13-43 g. Diademed and draped bust of Alexander III right. / AIΓEAIΩN THΣ IEΡAΣ KAI AYTONOMOY around, ZΠ over MI in left field, bare head of Julius Caesar right. RPC I 4036B; SNG Levante 1691; SNG Pfalz 55. | Text | Image |
RPC 4040 | Aegeae, Cilicia. AE24, dated Year 90 (AD 43-44). 8.84 g. Helmeted bust of Athena right / AIΓEAIΩN, Tyche standing left with rudder and cornucopiae; date Ρ AΘA in left field. | Text | Image |
SNG France 2300 | Aigeai, Cilicia, ca 120-83 BC. AE22 dichalkon, 7.48 g. Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche right / AIΓEAIΩN THΣ IEΡAΣ KAI AYTONOMOY, horse's head left, ΡNTΔ monogram in right field. Ziegler Kilikien 1368; SNG France II 2300-2302; SNG Pfalz 42; SNG Cop 29; Waddington 4064; SNG Lev. 1663; Bloesch 159-163; Paris 50. | Text | Image |
SNG France 2303 | Aigeai, Cilicia, 164-47 BC. AE19 dichalkon, 6.29 g. Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche right / AIΓEAIΩN THΣ IEΡAΣ KAI AYTONOMOY, horse's head left, date ΔH in right field. SNG France II 2303. | Text | Image |
SNG Fr 2319 | Aegeae, Cilicia. Time of Claudius. Year 90 (43/4 AD). AE 24mm (8.84 gm). Helmeted bust of Athena right / AIΓEAIΩN, Tyche standing left with rudder and cornucopiae; date: Ρ-AΘA. RPC 4040. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1630 | Aigeai, Cilicia, AE21, struck by Antiochos IV Epiphanes of the Seleucid Kingdom, 175-164 BC. 7.21 g. Diademed head right / AIΓEAIΩN, head and neck of bridled horse left. SNG Levante 1630; SNG Levante Supp. 394 (this coin); Winterthur 6431. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1633 | Aigeai, Cilicia, 164-47 BC. AE21 dichalkon, 6.01 g. Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche right / AIΓEAIΩN, horse's head left, ΩΠΛY monogram in right field. SNG Levante 1633 (this coin); Bloesch 47-50; SNG Pfalz 31. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1635 | Aigeai, Cilicia, AE14, Pseudo-autonomous, time of Tarkondimotos, ca 30-27 BC. Turreted bust of Tyche right / AIΓEAIΩN above horse's head left, monogram of Tarkondimotos to right. SNG Levante 1635; SNG France 2284; BMC 1. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1636 | Aigeai, Cilicia, 164-47 BC. AE20 dichalkon, 6.12 g. Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche right / AIΓEAIΩN, horse's head left, ΡXYE monogram in right field. SNG Lev 1636; Bloesch 26-27; Winterthur 6466. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1637 | Aigeai, Cilicia, 164-47 BC. AE20 dichalkon, 7.23 g. Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche right / AIΓEAIΩN, horse's head left, MH monogram in right field. SNG Lev 1637; Bloesch 21-24; SNG France 2282; Paris 53; Waddington 4065; Winterthur 4523. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1638 | Aigeai, Cilicia, AE 14mm; 3.3g. Veiled and turreted head of Tyche right / AIΓEAIΩN, Head of horse left. SNG Levante 1638; Lindgren I 1395; Milne 3; Bloesch 35. | Text Text | Image Image |
SNG Lev 1639 | Aigeai, Cilicia, 164-47 BC. AE20 dichalkon, 5.77 g. Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche right / AIΓEAIΩN, horse's head left, OVTΔ monogram in right field. SNG France 2283; SNG Levante 1639; SNG von Aulock 5442; Bloesch 32-36; Paris 54; Mionnet III, 8. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1650 | Aigeai, Cilicia. 47-27 BC AE 13; 1.8g. Laureate head of bearded Herakles right / AIΓEAIΩN..., Club and gorytos (bow case). SNG Levante 1650; Lindgren I 1396; Winterthur 6467; SNG France II 2312. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1651 | Aigeai, Cilicia, 130-77 BC. AE20 dichalkon, 6.09 g. Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche right / AIΓEAIΩN, forepart of horse leaping left, ΩΠA monogram in right field. SNG Levante 1651 (this coin); SNG France 2288; Hunter 2; Bloesch 82-90; Paris 52; Waddington 4060. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1655 | Aigeai Cilicia, AR Tetradrachm. 31-0 BC. Turreted, veiled bust of Tyche right / AIΓEAIΩN, Athena standing left, holding wreath-bearing Nike and resting hand on grounded shield, vertical spear behind, ΔI and club in left field, Δ and IC (year 16 of local era) below, all within wreath. Arnold-Biucchi 54–57 (D4/R11). | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1657 | Aigeai, Cilicia, 130-77 BC. AE24 dichalkon, 8.20 g. Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche right / AIΓEAIΩN THΣ IEΡAΣ KAI AYTONOMOY, horse's head left, ΔHTΡ monogram in right field. SNG Levante 1657 (this coin); Bloesch 157-158; Paris 131-132; SNG France 2293. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1658 | Aigeai, Cilicia, 164-47 BC. AE21 dichalkon, 5.91 g. Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche right / AIΓEAIΩN THΣ IEΡAΣ KAI AYTONOMOY, horse's head left, ΠΛY monogram in right field. SNG Lev 1658; SNG France 2297; Bloesch 138-145; Winterthur 4529; McClean 9045; BMC 3. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1660 | Aigeai, Cilicia, 164-47 BC. AE22 dichalkon, 7.01 g. Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche right / AIΓEAIΩN THΣ IEΡAΣ KAI AYTONOMOY, horse's head left, AHΡ monogram in right field. SNG Lev 1660; Bloesch 127-133; Weber 7496; Paris 47; BMC 4. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1661 | Aigeai, Cilicia, 164-47 BC. AE22 dichalkon, 9.98 g. Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche right / AIΓEAIΩN THΣ IEΡAΣ KAI AYTONOMOY, horse's head left, ΠΔΡ monogram in right field. SNG Levante 1661; Bloesch 153-156; Winterthur 4528; SNG von Aulock 5445. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1664 | Aigeai, Cilicia, 130-77 BC. AE19 dichalkon, 6.55 g. Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche right / AIΓEAIΩN THΣ IEΡAΣ KAI AYTONOMOY, horse's head left, E in right field. SNG Levante 1664 (this coin); Bloesch 167 (ditto); BMC 6. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1684 | Aigeai, Cilicia. 1st Century BC. AE 18mm. Diademed head of Alexander III right / AIΓEAIΩN, Nike walking left, holding wreath in right hand, palm in left; ET-I in right field, NEI left. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1685 | Aigeai, Cilicia. 1st Century BC. AE 18mm. Diademed head of Alexander III right / AIΓEAIΩN, Nike walking left, holding wreath and palm; Delta I before, MH behind. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1687 | Aigeai, Cilicia, 164-47 BC. AE19 dichalkon, 6.23 g. Dated Year 14, 34-33 BC. Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche right / AIΓE-AIΩN in two lines above, horse's head left, EP in right field, date ΔI below. SNG Levante 1687; Bloesch 260-263; Waddington 4062; Paris 55. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1694 | Aigeai, Cilicia, AE25, Time of Claudius, dated Year 89 (42-43 AD). Draped and helmeted bust of Athena right, with aegis / AIΓEAIΩN ΔIOΓ ΘΠ, Tyche standing left, holding rudder and cornucopiae. SNG Levante 1694; SNG France 2318; RPC 4038. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1696 | Aigeai, Cilicia, AE30, Time of Claudius, dated Year 90 (43-44 AD). Draped bust of Isis right wearing kalathos, cornucopiae before containing aphlaston / AIΓEAIΩN, Athena Promachos standing left, wearing long chiton and helmet, holding shield and spear. AΘA and retrograde P monogram in left field. SNG Levante 1696; RPC 4039. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1698 | Aigeai, Cilicia, AE19, Time of Claudius, dated Year 100 (AD 43-44). Veiled and turreted head of Tyche right / AIΓEAIΩN, Bridled head of horse left, ET-P (date) across fields, NEI in exergue. SNG Levante 1698 (this coin); SNG France 2320; RPC I 4044. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1700 | Aigeai, Cilicia. 1st century AD. AE 27mm. Dated Caesarean Era 115 (68/9 AD). Head of Perseus right, in cap and gorgoneion surmounted by eagle(?) / Helmeted and draped bust of Athena left; in right field, date above monogram; c/ms: serpent-entwined staff within incuse rectangle and goat kneeling left within incuse circle. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1705 | Aigeai, Cilicia, AE18, dated year 135, 88-89 AD, time of Domitian. Magistrate Heracleonus. Veiled, turreted and draped bust of Tyche right / AIΓEAIΩN above, HΡAKΛEΩNOC below, Bridled head of horse left, EΛΡ in right field. SNG Levante 1705; RPC 1779. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1706 | Aigeai, Cilicia, AE20, dated year 135, 88-89 AD, time of Domitian. Magistrate Herakleonos. Wreathed head of Asklepios right, serpent-entwined staff before / AIΓEAIΩN HΡAKΛEΩNOC above and beneath eagle standing left, head right, date ELR to left. SNG Levante 1706 (this coin); RPC 1777. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1707 | Aigeai, Cilicia, Time of Domitian. Dated local year 135. AD 88-89. AE19 dichalkon, 5.17 g. Magistrate Metrodoros. Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche right / AIΓEAIΩN MHTΡOΔΩΡOY above and beneath horse's head left, EΛ-Ρ (retrograde) across fields. SNG Levante 1704 (this coin); RPC II 1778 (ditto). | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1727 | Aigeai, Cilicia, AE13, dated year 185, 137-139 AD, time of Antoninus Pius. Draped and helmeted bust of Athena right / AIΓEAIΩN EΠΠ, goat kneeling left. SNG Levante 1727 (this coin); SNG France 2333. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1733 | Aigeai, Cilicia, AE13, dated year 211, 164-165 AD, time of Markus Aurelius. Draped and helmeted bust of Athena right / AIΓEAIΩN, goat kneeling left, date AIC above. SNG Levante 1733 (this coin); SNG France 2335. | Text | Image |
SNG Pfalz 42 | Aigeai, Cilicia, 164-47 BC. AE21 dichalkon, 7.34 g. Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche right / AIΓEAIΩN THΣ IEΡAΣ KAI AYTONOMOY, horse's head left, ΡNHΔT monogram in right field. SNG Pfalz 42; Waddington 4064; Ziegler Kilikien 1368; Bloesch 159-163; SNG Cop 29; Paris 50. (Not in SNG Lev (or supplement) with this monogram). | Text | Image |
SNG Pfalz 59 | Aegeae, Cilicia, AE13, semi-autonomous issue. Dated local year 208 (AD 161-162). 2.4 g. Helmeted head of Athena right / Goat recumbent right, date CH above. SNG Pfalz 59; Lindgren I A1397A. | Text | Image |
Winterthur 6253 | Aigeai, Cilicia, 130-77 BC. AE20 dichalkon, 7.22 g. Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche right / AIΓEAIΩN THΣ IEΡAΣ KAI AYTONOMOY, horse's head left, EK monogram in right field. Bloesch 169-172; Hunter 3 (this coin); Milne 5 in NC 1940; Winterthur 6253. | Text | Image |
Ziegler 1361 | Aigeai, Cilicia, AE21, struck by Antiochos IV Epiphanes of the Seleucid Kingdom, 175-164 BC. Diademed head right / AIΓEAIΩN, head and neck of bridled horse left, anchor countermark in right field. Ziegler Kilikien 1361; Duesseldorf 11217. | Text | Image |
Ziegler 1379 | Aigeai, Cilicia, AE14, Pseudo-autonomous, 164-165 AD. Draped and helmeted bust of Athena right / AIΣ-ETOYΣ, above and below goat reclining left. Ziegler 1379; Duesseldorf 11542. | Text | Image |
Sear 5513 | Aigeai, Cilicia AE20. 2nd-1st Century BC. Turreted head of Tyche right / AIΓEAIΩN, bridled horses head left. | Text | Image |
Sear 5515 | Aigeai, Cilicia, AE19. 2nd-1st c.BC, Turreted head of Tyche right / Bridled horse's head left. Monogram in right field. | Text | Image |
Sear 5516 | Cilicia, Aigeia AE16. Laureate head of Zeus right / AIΓEAIΩN behind Athena standing left holding Nike Spear and leaning on shield, monogram TEP before. | Text | Image |
Sear 5517 | Cilicia, Aigeia, AE18. Helmeted bust of Athena right / AIΓEAIΩN, goat kneeling left. Date ΔI in left field. Bloesch 269; SNG Levante 1668. | Text | Image |
RPC 4036B | Augustus or Alexander III and Divus Julius Caesar AE 28mm of Aegeae, Cilicia. Dated local year 87. AD 40-41. Struck under Caligula. No legend, bare head of Augustus (or Alexander III) right. / AIΓEAIΩN THΣ IEΡAΣ KAI AYTONOMOY MI ZΠ, bare head of Julius Caesar right, ΠAΡ monogram in left field. RPC I 4036B; SNG Levante 1691; SNG Levante Suppl 400; SNG Pfalz 55. | Text | Image |
RPC 4043 | Britannicus. AE24, 8.7g of Aegeae, Cilicia. ..BΡITANNIKOC..., bare head right / ET Π-AIΓE-AIΩ[N]-N[EI] in 4 lines within laurel wreath. RPC 4043; SNG Lev 1699; Isegrim 42074. | Text | Image |
RPC 4045 | Britannicus, AE23 of Aigeai, Cilicia. Dated local year 100. AD 53-54. 9.25 g. (BΡETANNIKOΣ), bare-headed, draped bust right. / ET Π-AIΓE-AIΩN-ΔIO in four lines within laurel wreath. RPC 4045; Haymann 16b; Waddell II 378. | Text | Image |
RPC 1772 | Domitian and Domitia, AE25 of Aegeae, Cilicia. AD 88-89. 12.7 g. Magistrate Heliodoros. Dated local year 135. No legend, laureate head of Domitian right, facing draped bust of Domitia left. / AIΓEAIΩN EΛΡ HΛIOΔΩΡOY above and beneath two aphlastons, all within laurel wreath. SNG Levante 1709; SNG France 2322; RPC II 1772. | Text | Image |
SNG Levante 1711 | Trajan AE 32mm of Aegaea, Cilicia. Dated Caesarean Era 145 = 98-99 AD. AYTOKΡATOΡA TΡAIANON KAICAΡA, laureate head right / AIΓEAIΩN EKKΛHCIA EMΡ, Ecclesia seated left, holding patera, goat kneeling left below. SNG Levante 1710-1711; SNG France II, 2325; Paris 72; Waddington 4068. | Text | Image |
Gemini III 380 | Hadrian AR Tridrachm of Aegeae, Cilicia. Year 177 = 130/131 AD. AYTOKΡ KAICA TΡAIANOC AΔΡIANOC CEB ΠΠ, bare-chested, laureate bust right, fold of cloak on front shoulder / AIΓEAIΩN ETOYς ZOP, draped and veiled bust of Hygieia right, before her neck snake approaching two pellets in patera, goat below. NISC. Gemini III, 380 | Text | Image |
GeminiIV, 423 | Hadrian AR Tridrachm of Aegeae, Cilicia. Struck AD 130-131. AYTOKΡ KAICA TΡAIANOC AΔΡIANOC CEB ΠΠ, laureate bust right, slight drapery on far shoulder / (from top right) AIΓEAIΩN ETOYς ZOR (year 177 of the Caesarian era), draped bust of Asklepios right, in taenia, serpent-entwined staff before, goat kneeling left below bust. NISC. Gemini IV, 423. | Text | Image |
Gemini VI 615 | Hadrian. 117-138 AD. Tridrachm, 9.66g. Cilicia, Aegeae, 117 AD. AVTOKΡA KAICAΡ TΡAIA AΔΡIANOC, laureate head right / ETOYC ΓEΡ AIΓEAIΩN, diademed head of Alexander III right, goat below. Aegeae's Year 163. Haymann, Gephyra 4, 2008, pp. 1-8 (this coin). | Text | Image |
Prieur 715 | Hadrian AR Tridrachm of Cilicia, Aegeae, Year 164 = 117-118 AD. AYTOKΡ KAIC TΡAIANOC AΔΡIANOC CEB, bare-chested, laureate bust right, fold of cloak on front shoulder / AIΓEAIΩN ETOYC ΔΣΡ, diademed head of Perseus right, goat below. | Text | Image | Text | Image |
Prieur 722 | Hadrian and Sabina AR Tridrachm of Cilicia, Aegeae, Year 180 = 133-134 AD. AYTOKΡ KAIΣ TΡAI ANOΣ AΔΡIANO ΣEB Π Π, bare-headed bust left, fold of cloak on front shoulder and around neck / ΣABINA ΣEBA AIΓEAIΩN ΠΠ, draped bust of Sabina right, hair coiled and piled atop head, goat below. | Text | Image | Text | Image | Text | Image |
Prieur 716 | Hadrian AR Tetradrachm of Aigeai, Cilicia. Dated Caesarean Era 164 = AD 117-118. AVTOKΡ KAIC TΡAIN AΔΡIANOC CEB, laureate bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder / AIΓEAIΩN ETOVC ΔXΡ, Amaltheia standing facing, head right, holding cornucopiae and infant Zeus, who crowns her; at feet, goat kneeling right, head left. SNGLev 1713, SNGFr 2328. | Text | Image | Text | Image |
Prieur 717 | Hadrian AR Tetradrachm of Aegeae, Cilicia. Struck AD 117-118. AYTOKΡ KAIC TΡAIANOC AΔΡIANOC CEB, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Hadrian right / AIΓAIΩN ETOYC ΔXΡ, (year 164 of the Caesarian era), draped bust of Perseus right, harpe over shoulder, tiny goat kneeling right below bust. SNG Lev 1717. | Text | Image |
Prieur 720 | Hadrian AR Tetradrachm of Aigeai, Cilicia. Dated Caesarean Era 179 = 132/3 AD. Laureate and cuirassed bust right / AIΓEAIΩN ETOYS•ΘOΡ (date), eagle standing facing on harpe, head right; in exergue, goat kneeling right. SNG Lev 1718, SNGFr 2331-2332. | Text | Image |
Prieur 721 | Hadrian AR Tetradrachm of Aegeae, Cilicia. Year 180 = 133-134 AD. AYTOKΡ KAIΣ TΡAIA AΔΡIANO ΣEB Π Π, laureate, cuirassed bust right, seen from front, fold of cloak on front shoulder / AIΓEAIΩN ETOYΣ ΠΡ, eagle standing front, head right, on harpe, goat below. | Text | Image | Text | Image | Text | Image | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1724 | Antoninus Pius. AE 28; Aegeae; Cilicia, 138–161 AD. AYT KAIΣ T AIΛOΣ AΔΡI ANTΩNEINOΣ..), bare head right / AΔΡIANΩN AIΓEAIΩN, EΠI (beneath seat) ΠΡ (left field), Nymph seated on rock, left, holding long reed, resting arm on water-urn; to left, a goat reclining. Von Aulock 8666; SNG Levante 1724. | Text | Image |
SNG Levante 1726 | Antoninus Pius, AE28 of Aegeae, Cilicia. AD 138-161. 16.32 g. AYT KAIC T AIΛ AΔΡ ANTωNEINOC, radiate head right. / AΔΡIANωN AIΓEAIωN, Dikaiosyne standing left, holding scales and cornucopiae. Date EΡΡ (first Ρ retrograde) in lower left field. SNG Levante 1726; SNG Tahberer 161; Lindgren III 750. | Text | Image |
SNG Fr 2373 var | Antoninus Pius, AE33 of Aigeai, Cilicia. AYT TITOC AIΛIOC KAICAΠ ANTΩNEINOC, bare-headed, draped bust right / (AΔΡIAN)ΩN AIΓEAIΩN, Asklepios standing facing, head left, holding serpent-entwined staff. Goat left at feet on right, date ΔΠΡ to right = CY184 = A.D 138. RPC online 5732; SNG France 2 2373 var (Pupienus with ΔΠΣ). | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1732 | Marcus Aurelius AE25 of Aigeai, Cilicia, 138-161 AD. 12.81 gr. Dated CY 191 (144-145 AD). M AYΡHΛIOC OYHΡOC KECA, Bare-headed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / AΔΡIANΩN AIΓEAIΩN, veiled and draped bust of Tyche right, wearing mural crown, date AQR before, goat recumbent left beneath neck. SNG Levante 1732 (this coin); SNG Righetti 1480. | Text | Image |
SNG France 2334 | Faustina II AE25 of Aegeae, Cilicia. Struck AD 144-145. Dated local year 191. ΦAYCTEINA CEBACTH, draped bust right, wearing stephane. / AΔΡ AIΓEAIΩN AΘΡ, draped bust of Tyche right, polos on head, cornucopiae before head. SNG France II, 2334; Paris R3856; Eti (Thesis) 57; (Lindgren III 752 with poorly struck AΘΡ resembling ΔΘΡ). | Text | Image |
SNG France 2336 | Commodus AE38mm of Aegeae, Cilicia. Dated Caesarean Era 234 = 187-188 AD. AYT KAI M AY KOMMOΔOC AN, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / KOMOΔIANΩN AΔΡIANΩN AIΓEAIΩN, draped bust of Isis right, in sun-disk and horns, facing draped bust of Serapis left, in kalathos; , date ΔΛC in exergue. SNG Levante Supp 404; Drexler 1; Mionnet Supp. III, 22. | Text | Image |
Vienna 19044 | Commodus AE33 of Aegeae, Cilicia. AD 187-188. 53.42 g. AYT KAI M AY COMMOΔOC AN (sic), laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / KOMOΔIANΩN AΔΡIANΩN AIΓEAIΩN, draped bust of Asklepios right, wearing taenia, upright serpent before, date ΔΛC in exergue. Vienna 19044, otherwise unlisted. (Note that the first C of his name is engraved as a Latin C instead of a K) | Text | Image |
SNG Levante 1736 | Septimius Severus Septimius Severus, AE 32mm of Aegeae, Cilicia. Dated local year 247, AD 200-201. AYT K Λ CEΠ CEYHΡOC ΠEΡ C, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / CEYHΡIANΩN AIΓEAIΩN and date ZMς galles with rowers, ram and signa travelling right. SNG Levante 1736; SNG von Aulock 5454; Franke KZR 220. | Text | Image |
SNG France 2340 | Julia Domna, AE 31mm of Aegeae, Cilicia. Dated Caesarean Era 240 = AD 193-194. IOYΛIAN ΔOMNAN CEB, draped bust right / AΔΡIANΩN AIΓEAIΩN ETOYC Mς, draped bust of Hygieia, serpent around shoulders. Ziegler Kilikien 1382; SNG Levante 1737; SNG France II, 2340; Paris 82. | Text | Image |
Levante NC 1984 200 | Caracalla, AE of Aigeai, Cilicia. 21.17 gr. 201-202 AD. AY..ANTΩNEINOC CEB, laureate head bust right, draped left shoulder / CEVHΡIAN..AIΓAI, Athena standing left, holding Nike and resting left hand on shield. Date HMS (248 of local era) in field. Levante NC 1984, 200. | Text | Image |
BMC 27 | Macrinus and Diadumenian AE 26mm of Aegeae in Cilicia. Year 264 (AD 217-218). AYT K M OΠ CEY MAKΡINOC K ANTONINOC, Radiate, draped bust of Macrinus right facing bare-headed, draped bust of Diadumenian left / MAKΡINOYΠ M EYΓ Π AIΓEΩN ΔXC around and in left field, draped bust of Dionysos right, wreathed with ivy, thyrsos over left shoulder, bunch of grapes in right field. Niggeler I, 646; BMC 27. | Text | Image |
SNG Fr II 2344 | Macrinus, AE28 mm of Aigeai, Cilicia. AYT K M OΠ CEY MAKΡINOC, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right / ..OY Π M EY Π Θ AIΓAIΩN ΔXC, the Pharos of Aigeai surmounted by statue of Poseidon with trident, all between two ships in the harbour. SNG Fr 2344. | Text | Image |
SNG Fr 2345 | Macrinus AE29 of Aegeae, Cilicia. AYT K M OΠ CEV MAKΡEINOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, (counterstamp of laureate head right before) / Macrinus on horseback right, holding spear, small lion leaping left below. SNG France 2345. | Text | Image |
SNG France 2347 | Macrinus and Diadumenian AE 35mm of Aegeae, Cilicia. Dated Caesarean Era 264 = 217/18 AD. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Macrinus facing bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust of Diadumenian / MAKΡINOV K M EY Π AIΓEΩ (Ω horizontal) N, draped bust of young Dionysus right, wearing taenia; thyrsus over left shoulder, grape bunch to right, date below. | Text | Image |
WWxls 40928 | Macrinus, AE28 of Aegeae, Cilicia. AD 217-218. 13.4 g. AYT K M OΠ CEYH MAKΡEINOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. / MAKΡEINOY Π M EYΓ Π Θ AIΓAIΩN, the centaur Chiron walking right, holding the infant Asklepios in his left arm. Unpublished. WWxls 40928. Leu 23, 3651. | Text | Image |
BMC 29 | Diadumenian AE28 of Aigeai, Cilicia. Dated local year 264, AD 217-218. 14.88 g. M OΠEΛ ANTΩNEINOC KAI, bare-headed, draped, cuirassed bust right. / MAKΡINOYΠO M EYΓ ΠI Θ AIΓEΩN around, date ΔΞC in lower right field, diademed head of Alexander III right, goat below. BMC 29; Megaw AEG1b; SNG France 2 2348; Paris 88; Waddington 4074. | Text | Image |
Dionysos NZ0121 | Diadumenian AE27 of Aigeai, Cilicia. AD 217-218. 11.67 g. M OΠEΛ ANTΩNEINOC KAI (or KAICAΡ), bare-headed, draped, cuirassed bust right. / MAKΡINOYΡ AIΓ M EYC Π Θ AIΓEΩN around and beneath galley with billowing sail, sailing left. Var of SNG France II, 2356; BMC 35; Paris 96; Waddington 4078 etc (all with galley sailing right and different obv. legend). Megaw -; SNG Tahberer -; SNG Turkey - etc. Dionysos Num. NZ0121, unpublished. | Text | Image |
SNG France 2354 | Diadumenian, Caesar, AE 28mm of Aegeae, Cilicia. Dated CY 264 = 217-218 AD. M A OΠ ANTΩNINOC KAICAΡ, Bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust right / MAKΡEINOY Π M EYΓ ΠO AIΓEAIΩN ΔXC, Goat kneeling right; [date in exergue]. SNG Levante 1754. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1751 | Diadumenian, AE27 of Aegeae, Cilicia. 217-218 AD. M OΠE ANTΩNEINOC KAI, bare-headed, draped, cuirassed bust right. / MAKΡEINOYΠ M EYΓ Π Θ ΔXC AIΓAIΩN around, in fields and beneath goat standing right with two torches between its horns. Ziegler Kilikien 1387; SNG France II, 2351-2353; Paris 92-94; Waddington 4075; SNG Levante 1751. | Text | Image |
Ars-Aeterna 608 | Severus Alexander AE30 of Aegeae in Cilicia. AYT K CE AΛEΞANΔΡOC, laureate, draped bust right / Segmented wreath with AΔΡI-AIEAI-AΩN-EOC around, EΠICT ΘEOΦ MAK ΓOC in filled segments, AΛEXANΔΡOYA below, and turreted, veiled head of Tyche at top centre. Ars-Aeterna 608; SNG Levante 1755 var. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1756 | Severus Alexander, AE19 of Aigeia, Cilicia. 223-224 AD. AYT K CE AΛEXANΔΡOC, laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right / AIΓEAIΩN - E M Π Θ ETO C, veiled and turreted bust of Tyche right. SNG Levante 1756; Lindgren I 1407; Ziegler (dt. Kleinsammlungen) 1389. | Text | Image |
SNG Levante 1756cf | Severus Alexander AE 20mm of Aegeae in Cilicia. Year 240 = 223-224 AD. AVT K CE AΛEXANΔΡOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / Goat leaping right, O-C in fields; all within wreath. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev. 1758 | Severus Alexander, AE23, 222-235, Aegeae, Cicilia. Dated local year 275 (AD 228-229). 7.93 g. M AYΡ CEYHΡOC AΛEXANΔΡOC, laureate, draped bust right / AΔΡI AΛEXANΔΡOY ΠO AIΓ, serpent coiled around conical baetyl or omphalos, head left. E-OC across fields. SNG Levante 1758-1759; SNG Tahberer 193-194 corr. (rev. description). | Text | Image |
SNG Lev. 1759 corr | Severus Alexander, AE30 of Aegeae, Cilicia. AD 222-235. 13.15 g. Dated local year 275 (AD 228-229). AYΡ CEYHΡOC AΛEXANΔΡOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. / AΔΡIANΩN AIΓAIΩN around, date EOC below, basket-shaped cista mystica with coiled serpent emerging, between two torches. SNG Levante 1759 corr. (AYT). | Text | Image |
SNG Lev. 1768 | Alexander Severus AE25 of Aegeae, Cilicia. Dated local year 277, AD 230-231. 8.27 g. AYT KAI M AYΡ CEY AΛEXANΔΡOC, laureate head right. / CEY AΔΡ AIΓEAIΩN around, ZOC in three lines in left field, Asklepios standing front, looking left, leaning on serpent-entwined staff, Telesphoros at foot left, recumbent goat right at foot right. SNG Levante 1768; Lindgren III 761. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1764 | Severus Alexander AE36mm of Aegeae, Cilicia. Dated Caesarean Era 276 = AD 229-230. AVT KAI C M AVΡ CEV AΛEXANΔ OON C, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / draped bust of Serapis right, modius on head; date ς-OC across fields. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1766 | Severus Alexander AE 25mm of Aegeae, Cilicia. 230-231 AD. AYT K M A CEOYH AΛEXANΔΡOC CEB, laureate, draped bust right. / AΛEXANΔΡOYΠOΛIC AΔΡ, Z-O-C in fields; AIΓAIΩN below, cista mystica surmounted by serpent, between two burning torches. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev. 1770 | Severus Alexander, Aegeae, Cilicia, Ae 26, 8.3g. AVT K M [AV CEOV AΛEXANΔΡOC], Diademed draped bust right, serpent-entwined, eagle-tipped staff before (denoting the emperor as the high priest of the cult of Asklepios)/ [M]AK EVΓ ΠIC - Θ[EO AΔΡIA AIΓEAIΩN], Distyle temple with curved architrace, with Tyche, turreted, seated left on rock within, holding corn ears, river god swimming left at feet. Date Z-O-C across fields (CY 277 = AD 230-231). SNG Levante 1770. | Text | Image |
SNG Levante 1775 | Severus Alexander AE35 Medallion of Aegaea, Cilicia. Dated Caesarean Era 278 = AD 231-232. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, holding serpent-entwined eagle-tipped sceptre / Tyche of Aegeae seated left on rock, holding tetrastyle temple with central arch, date HOC above goat kneeling left before. | Text | Image |
Lindgren 1408 | Julia Mamaea, AE of Aigeai, Cilicia. 8.86 g. 230-231 AD. IVΛIA MAMAIA CEBACTA, draped bust right / AIΓEAIΩN AΛEXANΔ, date ZOC in field, Nike standing facing holding shield inscribed ΔIKAIA. Lindgren I 1408. | Text | Image |
Ziegler 1395 | Julia Mamaea, AE31 of Aigeai, Cilicia. AD 229-230. 19.4 g. IOYΛIA MAMEA CEBACTH, draped bust right wearing stephane. / CEY AΔΡ AIΓ AΛEXANΔΡOYΠOΛ and date ςOC, Poseidon standing left, foot on prow, holding dolphin and trident. Ziegler Kilikien 1395 (this coin); SNG Tahberer 208. | Text | Image |
Anadolu 79-2 | Gordian III AE28 of Aegeae, Cilicia. Dated Local year 284, AD 238. 12.8 g. M ANT ΓOΡΔIANOC ΘEOΦI KAIC, laureate, cuirassed bust right. / CE AΔΡI AIΓEAIΩN NE NA around, date Δ-ΠC across fields, Apollo standing front, looking left, holding a laurel branch on a cippus to left. Anadolu museum 79-2; Eti (Thesis) 219; Arslan 2 in Anadolu 2006; Ziegler 209 in "Olba" VII (all referring to the same coin). | Text | Image |
SNG Levante 1780 | Philip I, Philip II and Otacilia Severa AE 28mm of Aegeai, Cilicia. AYT KAI MA IOY ΦIΛIΠON CEB MA IOY ΦIΛIΠON KAI M Ω CEOYHΡAN CEB, Confronted busts of Philip and Otacilia, Philip II between them / EY ΠI ΘEMA AIΓEΩN NEO, Hexastyle temple with statues of Asklepios and Telesphoros within, eagle in pediment, date below. SNG Levante 1780; SNG France II, 2376; Paris 116; Imhoof KM 18; SNG Righetti 1487. | Text | Image |
Lindgren 1409 | Otacilia Severa AE 25 of Aegeae in Cilicia. AD 244. MAΡKIA ΩTAKEIΛIA CEOYHΡA CEB, Draped bust right / AIΓAIΩN NEΩKOΡΩ NAYAΡXIC ΘS, Bust of Athena right, wearing crested helmet. Ziegler Kilikien 1399; Lindgren I 1409; SNG Levante Supp. 414. | Text | Image |
SNG Levante 1784 | Trajan Decius AE 28mm of Aegeae, Cilicia. Dated Caesarean Era 296 = AD 249-250. AYT KAI KYI TΡAIANOC ΔEKIOC CEBA, Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / AIΓEAIΩN NAYAΡXIΔOΣ ς ΘΣ, Merchant ship sailing right, dinghy in tow, towards lighthouse; date across sail, prow of second ship visible in left field. SNG France 2376. | Text | Image |
RPC IX 1456 | Herennius Etruscus, AE27 of Aegeai, Cilicia. AD 249-251. 14.34 g. Dated local year 297 (AD 250-251). K EΠ ET M ΔEKIOC ΘKY CEBA, radiate, draped bust right. / AIΓEΩN NEΩKOΡOY ΘEO ZqC, draped bust of Asklepios right, serpent-entwined staff before head. Ziegler Olba 211; Hecht 21 in NC 1968; Levante Supp. II, 5; Tahberer Asklepios Thesis 33; RPC IX 1456. | Text | Image |
Lindgren 764A | Volusian, AE24 of Aegeae, Cilicia, 251-253 AD. OYIB A OYOΛOCCIANOC CEB, laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right / AIΓEAIΩN NEΩKOΡOY HΘΣ, Veiled head of Demeter right. Lindgren III 764A. | Text | Image |
SNG Tahberer 220 | Aemilian, AE25 of Aegeae, Cilicia. Dated local year 299, AD 253. AYT AIMIΛIOC AIMIΛIANOC CEB, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. / AIΓEAIΩN NEΩK NAYAΡ around, date QyC, Artemis Brauronia resembling Athena, helmeted, standing right, wielding spear, holding shield on left arm, between two goats. SNG Tahberer 220 (corr. "Athena", this coin); SNG Righetti 1488 corr ("Athena"); Haymann 231; RIC IX 1462; Paris 117; SNG France 2379; Wadington 4086; SNG Levante 1787. | Text | Image |
SNG Levante 1792 | Cornelia Supera AE20 of Aegeae, Cilicia. AD 253. Γ AI KOΡNH CO(YΠEΡA CEB), diademed and draped bust right / AIΓEAIΩN NEΩ(K NAYAΡ .. ΘΘΣ, ΘY (date) below. Distyle temple with eagle standing within, wings spread. | Text | Image |
Arslan 3 | Valerian, AE32 of Aigeai, Cilicia, AD 253-260. AY KAI ΠOY ΛIK OYAΛEΡIANOC CEB, laureate, draped bust right, holding serpent-entwined sceptre / AIΓEΩN NE NA, head of Gorgoneion in the centre of a double circle with the signs of the Zodiac in the sections. Arslan 3 in Anadolu Museum report 2006; Anadolu 260-1; Anson 128 var (rev legend); Mionnet Supp. VII, 78 var (ditto). | Text | Image |
BMC 42 | Valerian, AE25 of Aegeae, Cilicia. AD 253-254. 10.8 g. Dated local year 300. AY KA ΠOY ΛIK OYAΛEΡIANOC CB, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right. / AIΓEAIΩN NEω NAYAΡ, Tyche standing left, holding rudder and cornucopiae, goat right at foot with head turned back. Date ET T in left field. BMC 42; Eti thesis 264. | Text | Image |
Mionnet 70 | Valerian. AE30, Aigeai, Cilicia. 300 AD. AY KAI ΠOY ΛIK OYAΛEΡIANOC CEB, laureate and cuirassed bust right / AIΓIEΩN NEΩ NAΡCIC ET T, Hygieia standing right, holding serpent in arms, Asklepios standing left, holding serpent-entwined staff, mantled Telesphorus standing between them. Mionnet S7, 70. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1793 | Valerian I AE27 of Aegeae, Cilicia. AY KAI ΠOY ΛIK OYAΛEΡIANOC CEB, radiate, draped, cuirassed bust right, seen from back / AIΓEAIΩN NEΩ NAYAΡCIΣ TΘς, quatrastyle temple with domed architrav and eagle in pediment, Asklepios standing left within, holding serpent-entwined staff. SNG Levante 1793. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1797 | Valerian I AE25, of Aigeai, Cilicia. 11.1g. Dated year 300 = AD 253-254. AV KA ΠO]Y ΛIK OYAΛEΡIANO[C CB], radiate, draped bust right / AIΓEAIΩN NEΩ [NAY], Tyche standing left, holding rudder and cornucopiae, date ET-T across fields. SNG Levante 1797; Eti ("Aigeai Sikkeleri"), 263. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev. 1802 | Valerian, AE of Aigeai, Cilicia. AY KAI ΠOY ΛIKI OYAΛEΡIANOC CEB, laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right / IEΡ OIKOYMENIKOΣ AΣKΛHΠIOΣ AIΓAIΩN T, Prize crown between two purses on table, amphora below. Ziegler Kilikien 1403; SNG Levante 1802-1803; SNG France 2 2388. | Text | Image |
SNG Tahberer 229 | Valerian I, AE21 of Aegeae, Cilicia. 5.2 g. Dated local year 300 = AD 253-254. AV K[AI ΠOV ΛIK OVAΛEΡIAN]OC, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right / NEΩKO NAVAΡX ET T, table inscribed AIΓEAIΩN on which is a prize urn containing 2 palm branches. SNG Tahberer, Cilicia, 229-230; Ziegler Kilikien 1405; SNG Cop 40; SNG Pfalz 77. | Text | Image |
Ziegler 1402 | Valerian AE33 of Aegeae, Cilicia. AD 253-254. 19.1 g. AY KAI ΠOY ΛIKI OYAΛEΡIANOC CEB, laureate, cuirassed bust of Valerian right. / AIΓEAIωN NEω NAYAΡ, ET T, Dionysos, holding kantharos and thyrsos, in biga of panthers front, the panthers facing left and right. Ziegler Kilikien 1402; Duesseldorf 8214; SNG von Aulock 5460 corr.; SNG Levante Suppl. 416; Eti Thesis 285. | Text | Image |
SNG France 2390 | Gallienus, AE27 of Aigeai, Cilicia. 253-254 AD. AYT K Π ΛIK ΓAΛΛIHNOC CEB, Laureate, draped cuirassed bust right / AIΓEAIΩN NEOKOΡΩN around, date ET T below, prize urn inscribed OIKOYM, containing two palms. Mionnet VII,85; Ziegler Kilikien 1407; SNG France 2 2390. | Text | Image |
Mionnet 55 | Salonina, AE32 of Aegeae, Cilicia, 20.6g. Dated local year 305=258-259 AD. KOΡNHΛIA CAΛΩNEINA, draped bust right, crescent at shoulders / AIΓAIΩN NEΩK NAVAΠ ET ET, Triptolemos standing naked, right arm raised, in biga drawn right by two serpents, the second ET in the exergue. Mionnet III, 55; SNG Levante Supp. 419 var (date). | Text | Image |
SNG Lev 1804 | Salonina, AE31 of Aegeae, Cilicia. 15.78 g, Dated CY 303. KOΡNHΛIA CAΛΩNINA CEB, diademed and draped bust right on crescent / AIΓAIΩN NEΩK.. ΓT, Artemis on horseback right, naked to waist, holding arrow and quiver. SNG Levante 1804; Lindgren I, 1413. | Text | Image |
SNG Lev Supp 419 | Salonina, AE32 of Aegeae, Cilicia, 20.6g. Dated CY 303=256-257 AD. [KOΠNHΛIA CAΛ]ΩNEINA, diademed draped bust right, crescent at shoulders / AIΓAIΩN NEΩK NAVAΡ ET, Triptolemos standing naked, right arm raised, in biga drawn right by two serpents, date Gamma T in exergue. SNG France II, 2391; SNG Levante Supp. 419. | Text | Image |
Ziegler Note 363 | Salonina, AE24 of Aigeai, Cilicia, 7.9g. KOΡ CAΛΩNEINA CE, diademed, draped bust right on crescent / AIΓEAI(ΩN) NEΩKΩΡ, athlete seated right on the trunk of a column, holding palm in left hand and pointing to wreath on his head with right. Ziegler Note 363. | Text | Image |
Note | The Bloesch references refer to Hellenistic Coins Of Aegeae (Cilicia) by Hansjorg Bloesch, in ANS Museum Notes 27, available for free download at archive.org (vols 26-28) or hathitrust.com, thanks to the generosity of the ANS. | ||
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