BMC 2 | Kydonia, Crete, AR Stater, 23 mm, 10.89 g. ca. 320-270 BC. Head of maenad right, wearing triple-pendant earring. / KYΔΩN, Kydon standing left, stringing bow, in dotted border within shallow circular incuse. BMC 2; Svoronos 11; Le Rider, Crétoises, 283; Sear SG 3249. | Text | |
BMC 4 | Kydonia, Crete, AR Stater 11 g, ca. 320-270 BC. Head of Artemis Diktynna left, wearing a ivy wreath. / KYΔΩN, Kydon standing left, stringing his bow. BMC 4; Svoronos 24; Philipson Coll. 1478; Paris 2555; Pellerin Rec. III, pl. 99, 36. | Text | |
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Robinson 9 | Kydonia, Crete AR Hemidrachm. Ca. 455-450 BC. Sea turtle with segmented shell / “Skew” incuse with raised arc in corner of largest segment. Le Rider 8, SNGCop 402.
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Robinson 48 | Crete. Cydonia AR Diobol. Ca. 320-280 BC. Head of young Dionysus or nymph left, long hair rolled around face and in loose chignon behind, loose locks falling down back of neck / Raised linear square in which raised lines forming “skew” pattern. SNG Lockett 2547.
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SNG Cop 402 | Kydonia, Crete, AR Hemidrachm, 14 mm, 2.95 g. ca. 450-330 BC. Tortoise with T-pattern shell; A in right field. / Incuse square with skew pattern of five sections with crescent in one section. SNG Cop. 402; Robinson, "Pseudoaeginetica" 8 in NC 1928; Sear SG 3247. | Text | |
SNG Cop 414 | Kydonia, Crete. AE18. Youthful male head right, short hair / KYD-W, hound seated right. SNG Cop 414; BMC 15. | Text | |
SNG Delepierre 1528 | Kydonia, Crete, AR triobol or hemidrachm, 12 mm, 2.78 g. ca. 450-330 BC. Tortoise with T-pattern shell; K in right field. / Incuse square with skew pattern of five sections. SNG Delepierre 1528 (K not visible). | Text | |
SNG Delepierre 2355 | Kydonia, Crete, AR Diobol, 1.84 g. ca 180 BC. Head of maenad left, wreathed with ivy. / Linear square divided into five sections, small circles at each corner. SNG Delepierre 2355; SNG Lockett 2547. | Text | |
SNG Delepierre 2357 | Kydonia, Crete, AR Diobol, 1.5 g. early 2nd c. BC. Head of maenad left, wreathed with ivy. / Linear square divided into five sections, three containing a dot. SNG Delepierre 2357; Seager, Cretan Hoard Ha-35 in ANS NNM 23. | Text | |
Svoronos 3 | Kydonia, Crete AR Stater. ca 320-280 BC. Signed by the artist Neuantos. Head of Dictynna right, in multiple pendant earring, hair wreathed with grapes and vine leaves; behind engraver’s signature in tiny letters / KYΔΩN, the hero Cydon, nude, standing left, stringing bow. Le Rider 18.
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Svoronos 14 | Kydonia, Crete, AR obol. ca 280 BC, 0.64 g. Head of Demeter or Persephone right, wreathed with corn. / KY-ΔΩ, amphora with grape vine hanging from each handle. Svoronos 14; BMC 10; Sear SG 3253. | Text | |
Svoronos 15 | Kydonia, Crete, AR Stater, 23 mm, 8.82 g. ca. 280-270 BC. Head of maenad left, wreathed with ivy. / KYΔΩN, Kydon standing left, stringing bow, retrograde K and spearhead in left field, hound at foot left. Svoronos 15; Paris 2557; Mionnet II, 116; Northwick 866. | Text | |
Svoronos 16 | Kydonia, Crete AR Stater. ca 320-280 BC. Head of nymph or maenad left, hair wreathed with ivy and vine leaves / KYΔΩN, the hero Cydon, nude, standing left, stringing bow, in left field race torch above hound right. Weber 4435.
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Svoronos 18 | Kydonia, Crete AR Trihemiobol. Circa late 3rd Century BC. Head of Pan or satyr left / Hound seated right. SNG Copenhagen 411, SNGLocket 2550.
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Svoronos 23 | Kydonia, Crete AR Stater. ca 320-280 BC. Head of nymph or maenad left, in pendant earring, hair wreathed with ivy and vine leaves / KYΔΩN (retrograde), the hero Cydon, nude, standing left, stringing bow. Le Rider 1.
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Svoronos 25 | Kydonia, Crete AR Drachm. ca 320-280 BC. Head of Dictynna left, in pendant earring, wreathed with ivy / KYΔΩN, the hero Cydon, nude, standing left, stringing bow. Le Rider pl. i, 7. | Text | |
Svoronos 26 | Kydonia, Crete, AR obol, 12 mm, 0.9 g. 320-270 BC. Head of Maenad left. / Three crescents around central K. Svoronos 26; Imhoof MG 13; BMC 11; SNG Cop. 407; Sear SG 3252. | Text | |
Svoronos 30 | Kydonia, Crete, AR obol, 11 mm, 320-270 BC. Head of maenad left, wreathed with ivy / KYDWN, three crescents with bucranium in the centre. Svoronos 30; BMC 6. | Text | |
Svoronos 41 | Kydonia, Crete AR Drachm. ca 320-280 BC. Head of Athena right, in acorn earring and crested Corinthian helmet with coiled serpent device on bowl / KYΔΩN, bitch standing left, suckling infant Cydon, star(?) above. BMC 9.
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Svoronos 49 | Kydonia, Crete, AE14. Youthful male head right. / KY-ΔΩ, hound sitting right. BMC 5; Svoronos 49; SNG Cop 412; Mionnet, Supp. IV, 177. | Text | |
Svoronos 53 | Kydonia, Crete. ca 4th Century BC. AE13. Youthful male head left / KYΔΩ, hound sitting right, right paw raised. Svoronos 53.
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Svoronos 59 | Kydonia, Crete AR Tetradrachm. Circa 2nd-1st Century BC. ΠAΣIΩN, head of Artemis right, bow and quiver at shoulder / KY-ΔΩ NIA-TA N, legend in three lines across fields, Diktynna standing facing, head turned left, with torch in left hand, hound at feet; all within laurel wreath. SNG Copenhagen 416; BMC 22.
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Svoronos 60 | Kydonia, Crete AR Tetradrachm. ca 2nd-1st Century BC. Π-A Σ-I Ω-N in two lines across fields, head of Artemis right, bow and quiver at shoulder / KIΔΩNIATAN, Artemis standing front, looking left, holding torch, hound at foot left, all within wreath. Svoronos 60; BMC 22; McClean 7090; SNG Berry 875; SNG Lockett 2551; SNG Cop 416; Jameson 1322; Mionnet II, 123; Paris Babelon inventory 2565; Sear SG 3255. | Text | |
Svoronos 65 | Kydonia, Crete, AE15. 200-67 BC. Laureate head of Apollo right. / KY-ΔΩ above and beneath crescent. Svoronos 65; Paris 2564; Mionnet II, 124; SNG Cop. 420. | Text | |
Svoronos 80 | Kydonia, Crete, AE14, 2.94 g. Owl standing right, head facing; A-Γ across fields. / KY-ΔΩ above and beneath star in upturned crescent. Svoronos 80. | Text | |
Svoronos 86 | Kydonia, Crete, AE15, 2.9 g. Owl standing right, head facing; A-Ρ across fields. / KY beneath star in upturned crescent. Svoronos 86; BMC 26-27; Paris 207; Sear SG 3259. | Text | |
TIBERIUS |
RPC 1015 | Tiberius, AE of Kydonia, Crete. AD 14-37. TI KAIΣAΡI ΣEBAΣTΩ KY or similar, laureate head right. / KYΔΩNIATAN, Miltos sitting left, suckled by a hound. RPC 1015; Paris 1966-453; Paris Babelon inventory 2580-2581 (Augustus); Mionnet II, 273 (ditto); cf Svoronos 119. | Text | |
CLAUDIUS |
RPC 1031 | Claudius, AE of Kydonia, Crete. AD 41-54. 9.73 g. TI KΛAYΔIOΣ KAICAΡ ΓEΡM ΣEBAΣTOΣ, laureate head right. / ΔΡOY KΛAY ΓEΡ ANTΩNIA, draped bust of Antonia right, facing bare head of Nero Drusus left. RPC 1031. | Text | |
DOMITIAN |
RPC 46 | Domitian, AE31 of Kydonia, Crete. AD 81-96. 16.21 g. Magistrate Neokydos Thera. ΔOMITANOC KAICAΡ, Laureate head right. / EΠI NEO KYΔOY ΘAΡ, Zeus seated left, holding grain ears and sceptre. RPC 46; Svoronos 139; SNG Cop 427. | Text | |
RPC 47 | Domitian, AE of Kydonia, Crete. AD 81-96. Magistrate Neokydos Thera. ΔOMITIANOC KAICAΡ, laureate head right. / EΠI NEO KYΔOY ΘA, hexastyle temple. RPC 47; Svoronos 141; Paris, Babelon inventory 2869-2870. | Text | |
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