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List of all the Kolophon horseman types to aid identification.
| BMC 15 | Kolophon, Ionia, AE10. Archaic head of Apollo left, hair bound with taenia / KOΛ.., Lyre. BMC 15; cf Sear Greek 4351. | Text | Image |
| Klein 401 | Kolophon (or Thraco-Macedonian?) AR Fraction, (0.42g). c 450 BC. Laureate head of Apollo right / Quadripartite incuse square, dot in centre. | Text | Image |
| McClean 8046 | Kolophon, Ionia, AR Drachm. 440-400 BC. Head of Apollo right / KOΛOΦΩNION, Lyre in incuse square. Milne Kolophon 40A; McClean 8046; Pozzi 2410; Weber 2765. | Text | Image |
| Milne 5 | Kolophon, Ionia, AR hemiobol, (0.41g) 520-490 BC, Facing laureate and veiled head of Apollo, leaf at side / HM monogram, within incuse square. SNG VA 7898; Milne 5; Klein 397. | Text | Image |
| Milne 7 | Kolophon, Ionia AR Tetartemorion (0.21g). 490-400 BC. Facing head of Apollo / TE monogram. SNG von Aulock 1999. | Text | Image |
| Milne 8 | Kolophon, Ionia. Circa 525-490 BC. AR Tetartemorion. Facing head of Apollo / TE monogram within incuse. | Text | Image |
| Milne 10a | Kolophon, Ionia. Circa 525-490 BC. AR Tetartemorion. Facing head of Apollo / TE monogram retrograde within incuse square. Milne Kolophon 10A; BMC 4; Imhoof 8 in NC 1895. | Text | Image |
| Milne 12A | Kolophon, Ionia, AR Tartemorion, 350 BC, Facing head of Apollo. / Quadripartite incuse square with dot in centre. Milne Kolophon 12A; SNG von Aulock 7904; Dessau II, 709J. | Text | Image |
| Milne 13a | Kolophon, Ionia. Circa 490-400 BC. AR Drachm (5.50 gm). Period II, Group A. KOΛΦΩNION (retrograde), laureate head of Apollo Klarios right / lyre within incuse square. Milne Kolophon 13; SNG Cop 135; Traite II-2, 1898; Waddington 1484. | Text | Image |
| Milne 14 | Kolophon, Ionia. Ca 450-410 BC. AR Drachm. 5.23 g. [N]OINΩΦΛOK (city name retrograde), laureate head of Apollo right, wearing simple laurel wreath / lyre within incuse square. Milne 14 corr.; BMC 2 (same dies); Pozzi 2408 (same obv. die). | Text | Image |
| Milne 25 | Kolophon, Ionia, AR drachm, 480-450 BC. 5.46g, 16mm. Laureate head of Apollo right / KOΛ-OΦΩ-NI-ΩN retrograde around lyre within incuse square. Milne 25. | Text | Image |
| Milne 30 | Kolophon, Ionia, AR third-obol, ca. 450-400 BC. 6 mm, 0.24 g. Laureate head of Apollo right. / TΡ monogram in shallow incuse. Milne 30; Imhoof GRM 1 (in RN vols. 13-14); Kraay 62 (in SNR 1962); Vienna 34996. | Text | Image |
| Milne 33 | Kolophon, Ionia, AR quarter obol. 490-400 BC. Laureate head of Apollo right / TE monogram, cicada to left, all within incuse square. Milne 33; Imhoof 14; Sear 4343 var (obv type) and 4345 var (cicada). | Text | Image |
| Milne 34 | Kolophon, Ionia. 525-490 BC. AR Tetartemorion (0.31 gm). Head of Apollo right / Incuse square with T-e monogram and grain ear or barley corn. Milne Kolophon 34; Imhoof 13 in NC 1895. | Text | Image | Text | Image |
| Milne 35a | Kolophon, Ionia, AR tetartemorion, 0.27g, 7.71mm. 490-400 BC. Head of Apollo right / TE monogram, astragalos to left, all within incuse square. Milne Kolophon 35A; SNG Tuebingen 2898; Weber 5809. | Text | Image |
| Milne 36 | Kolophon, Ionia, AR Tetartemorion (1/4 obol). 5th century BC. Laureate head of Apollo right / TE monogram, stork standing right, at left, all within incuse square. Milne 36; Imhoof GRM 2; Dessau II 709I; SNG Kayhan 360. | Text | Image |
| Milne 40c | Kolophon, Ionis, AR Drachm. 450-400 BC. AR 5.39 g. Laureate head of Apollo right, the hair finely waved / KOΛO-ΦΩ-NION, Lyre with seven strings within incuse square. SNG von Aulock 2004 (this coin). Milne 40c (same dies). | Text | Image |
| Milne 46 | Kolophon, Ionia, AR Drachm, 21mm, ca. 490-400 BC. 5.17 g. Head of Apollo right, wearing taenia / KOΛO-Φ-Ω-N-IΩN, Lyre with seven strings, all within slightly incuse square. Milne Kolophon 46; BMC 4; Mionnet III,108; Michailovitch 846; Weber 5810; Philipsen 2087; SNG Lockett 2798. | Text | Image |
| Milne 51b | Kolophon, Ionia AR Drachm. ca 389–350 BC. Laureate head of Apollo left, hair rolled / KOΛOΦΩN EΡMΩNAX to left and right of lyre. Milne Kolophon 51; Traité II-2, 1917; Weber F2766; Pozzi 2412; SNG Lockett 2279 and 2800. | Text | Image |
| Milne 65 | Kolophon, Ionia. Ca 389-350 BC. AR Drachm. Laureate head of Apollo left / KOΛOΦΩN AΡIΣTEIΔHΣ to left and right of lyre. Milne 65; SNG Fitzwilliam 4405; Hunter 1; Paris 2865; Philipsen 2093. | Text | Image |
| Milne 73 | Kolophon, Ionia. Ca 389-350 BC. Magistrate Laton.. AR Drachm (2.86 gm). Laureate head of Apollo right / KOΛOΦ ΛATΩN, lyre within incuse square. Milne Kolophon 73A; SNG von Aulock 2007. | Text | Image |
| Milne 78b | Kolophon, Ionia, AE Chalkous, ca 385-285 BC. 1.74 g, 11.31 mm. Head of Apollo right, wearing taenia / K-O-Λ-O-Φ-Ω, Lyre or Kithara within linear square, Astragalos to left and right. Milne 78B. SNG Tübingen 2899. | Text Text | Image Image |
| Milne 83 | Kolophon, Ionia, AE chalkous, Period III, ca 389-350 BC. Head of Apollo right, bound taenia, hair in waved locks / KOΛO-Φ-ΩNIΩN, lyre. Ξ below. Milne 83; BMC 16. | Text | Image |
| Milne 84 | Kolophon, Ionia, AE11 Chalkous. 389-350 BC. 1.27 g. Head of Apollo right, hair bound in a taenia / KOΛOΦΩNIΩN ΞH around and beneath lyre. Milne 84; Imhoof MG 35. | Text | Image |
| Milne 85 | Kolophon, Ionia AR Drachm. Magistrate Aminias, Period IV, ca 350-330 BC. Laureate head of Apollo left / KOΛOΦΩNIΩN AMINIANAΣ, lyre with five strings. Milne 85A; Prowe III 830. | Text | Image | Text | Image | Text | Image |
| Milne 87 | Kolophon, Ionia, AR Hemidrachm. 1.15 gr. 330-285 BC. Magistrate Leudamas. Laureate head of Apollo left, hair bound in broad taenia / KOΛOΦΩ ΛEΩΔAMAΣ to left and right of lyre. Milne 87; SNG Fitzw. 4408; Imhoof MG 31; Philipsen 2096. | Text | Image |
| Milne 89 | Kolophon, Ionia AR Hemidrachm. 10.8 mm, 1.40 g. 350-330 BC. Magistrate Straton.. Laureate head of Apollo left / KOΛOΦ ΣTΡATΩN to left and right of tripod. Milne 89; Imhoof Monn. Gr. 30; Weber F2767. | Text | Image |
| Milne 91 | Kolophon, Ionia, AR hemidrachm. 330-310 BC. 1.42g; 11mm. Magistrate Furson. Laureate head of Apollo left / KOΛOΦ ΦYΡΣΩN to left and right of tripod. Milne 91A; BMC 10; Pozzi 2414; Luynes 2591. | Text | Image |
| Milne 96 | Kolophon, Ionia. Ca 389-350 BC. AE Chalkous. head of Apollo right, hair bound in taenia / Lyre / Kithara. Milne 96. | Text | Image |
| Milne 104v | Kolophon, Ionia, AE Dichalkon, 1.71 gr. ca 300 BC. Magistrate Dionysetaros. Laureate head of Apollo right, hair in loose locks / ΔIONYΣETAΡO to left, KOΛ below, forepart of horse right. BMC 23 var; SNG München 548 var; Milne 104 var (all: magistrate's name). Poss. unpublished with this magistrate's name. | Text | Image |
| Milne 129 | Kolophon, Ionia, AE19. 3.25 gr. 330-285 BC. Magistrate Aristophanes. Laureate head of Apollo right, hair in loose locks / KOΛ AΡIΣTOΦANHΣ above and beneath horseman riding right with couched lance. Milne 129; Vienna 36616. | Text | Image |
| Milne 130 | Kolophon, Ionia, AE16. Head of Apollo right, hair bound in a taenia / ΓΛAYKOΣ beneath horseman riding right, spear couched. Milne 130; BMC 28. | Text | Image |
| Milne 131 | Kolophon, Ionia. ca 330-285 BC. AE 18mm. Laureate head of Apollo right / KOΛ ΔHIKΛOΣ, horseman, holding spear pointed forwards and with chlamys flying behind, on horseback prancing right; lyre in upper left field. Milne 131; SNG Cop 162, BMC 29. | Text | Image |
| Milne 132 | Kolophon, Ionia. AE Hemiobol. Magistrate Dionysifanes. Laureate head of Apollo right / KOΛ ΔIONYΣΦANHΣ above and beneath horseman right, chlamys flying out behind, holding couched lance. Lyre at upper left. Milne 132; Imhoof MG 35; cf Sear 4354. | Text | Image |
| Milne 145 | Kolophon, Ionia, AE16 mm, 1.94 gr. ca 330-285 BC. Magistrate Erasinides. Laureate, three-quarter facing head of Apollo, head turned slightly left / KO EΡAΣINIΔHΣ beneath and to left of lyre, palm upright in right field. Milne 145; Imhoof 107 in RSN 1913. | Text | Image |
| Milne 145 | Kolophon, Ionia, AE16 mm, 1.94 gr. ca 330-285 BC. Magistrate Erasinides. Laureate, three-quarter facing head of Apollo, head turned slightly left / KO EΡAΣINIΔHΣ beneath and to left of lyre, palm upright in right field. Milne 145; Imhoof 107 in RSN 1913. | Text | Image |
| Milne 153A | Kolophon, Ionia, AE9, Dichalkon, ca 285-190 BC. Magistrate Dositheos. 1.28 g. Laureate head of Apollo right / KOΛ ΔΩΣIΘEOΣ, forepart of horse right. Milne Kolophon 153A-153B; Imhoof KM 7. | Text | Image |
| Milne 176E | Kolophon, Ionia. AE18, 5.1 gr. 190-30 BC. Apollo head facing slightly left / KOΛOΦON IKEΣIOΣ, tripod, lyre countermark. SNG Cop 183 (same countermark); Milne 176E. | Text | Image |
| Milne 174B | Kolophon, Ionia. AE 18mm, 3.84 gr. 190-30 BC. Apollonides magistrate. Apollo head facing slightly left / KOΛOΦΩNEΩN AΠOΛΛΩNIΔEΣ, tripod, lyre countermark. SNG Cop 182 (countermark: SNG Cop 183); Milne 174B. | Text | Image |
| Milne 175 | Kolophon, Ionia, AE18. 190-30 BC. Magistrate Demetrios. Laureate head of Apollo facing. / ΔHMHTΡIOΣ KOΛOΦΩNIΩN to left and right of tripod. Milne Kolophon 175; Imhoof MG 38; Waddington 1501. | Text | Image |
| Milne 178 | Kolophon, Ionia. 190-30 BC. AE 18mm obol. AΠOΛΛAΣ, Homer seated left, holding scroll, head supported on his left hand / KOΛOΦΩNIΩN, Apollo Kitharoides walking right. Milne 178; BMC 42; SNG vA 2017. | Text | Image |
| Milne Period IIIB | Kolophon, Ionia. Ca 389-350 BC. AR Diobol. Laureate head of Apollo left / KOΛOΦΩ IYΠΠOKΡA or ITOΠOKΡA to left and right of lyre. Magistrate's name not in Milne, BMC, SNG Cop, etc. | Text | Image |
| Mueller 1734 | Kolophon, Ionia, 350-280 BC, AE-19 mm, 4.57 gr. Magistrate Prutanis. Laureate head of Apollo right / KOΛ ΠΡYTANIΣ above and beneath helmeted horseman riding right, holding couched spear. Mueller Collection 1734. Unpublished magistrate. | Text | Image |
| MM 21, 626 | Kolophon, Ionia, AE, 4th-3rd century BC. Magistrate Alkidemos. 5.88 g. Youthful head of Apollo right, hair bound in taenia, upright jewel or horn above forehead / AΛ-KI-ΔH-MOΣ around linear square with lyre within with KO above it. M&M 21, lot 626. Magistrate unlisted in Milne; BMC; Mionnet; SNG Cop; SNG ANS etc. | Text | Image |
| SNG Cop 133cf | Kolophon, Ionia. Circa 6th Century BC. AR Hemiobol (0.43 gm). Archaic diademed head of Apollo facing / HM monogram in incuse square. | Text | Image |
| SNG Cop 140 | Kolophon, Ionia. 490-400 BC. AR Quarter-Obol, 7mm, 0.29 g. Laureate head of Apollo right / Quadripartite incuse square with two dots in centre. SNG Cop 140; Milne 37; Vienna 34994. | Text | Image |
| SNG Cop 157 | Kolophon, Ionia. Ca 330-285 BC. Magistrate Sakrates. AE 13mm. Head of Apollo right / ΣAKΡATHΣ KOΛ beneath and to left of forepart of horse right. | Text | Image |
| SNG Cop 174 | Kolophon, Ionia AE13. 285-190 BC, Laureate head of Apollo right / KOΛ IKEΣIOΣ, Horseman riding right, holding spear. SNG Cop 174; Milne 155; Hunter 4. | Text | Image |
| SNG Kayhan 343 | Kolophon, Ionia, AR tetartemorion. 4.8mm, 0.15 g, late 6th century BC. Head of Apollo left / Quadripartite incuse square. SNG Kayhan 343 ff. | Text | Image |
| SNG Kayhan 359 | Kolophon, Ionia, Kolophon, Ionia, AR hemiobol. 0.315g, 6.86mm, c. 450 - 410 BC. Laureate head of Apollo right / TE monogram, cicada to left, all within incuse square. Milne 33A; Imhoof 14 in NC 1895; SNG von Aulock 2002; SNG Kayhan 359. | Text | Image |
| SNG Lewis 894 | Kolophon, Ionia. 190-30 BC. AE 17mm obol. ΠYΘEOΣ, Homer seated left, holding scroll, head supported on his left hand / KOΛOΦΩNIΩN, Apollo Kitharoides walking right. SNG Lewis 894; SNG Leipzig 1199; Allotte de la Fuye 540; SNG Tuebingen 2916-2919. | Text Text | Image Image |
| SNG vA 1811 | Kolophon, Ionia. Ca late 6th Century BC. AR Tetartemorion. 6mm, 0.41 g. Archaic head of Apollo right / Irregular incuse punch. SNG vA 1811; Klein 357. | Text | Image |
| SNG vA 2008 | Kolophon, Ionia, AE11 Chalkous. 1.24 g. Head of Apollo right, hair in a taenia / K-O-Λ to left and right and beneath lyre within linear square. Milne 75; SNG von Aulock 2008. SNG München 542; BMC 14. | Text | Image |
| SNG vA 7902 | Kolophon, Ionia, AR Tetartemorion. 7 mm, 0.14 g. 525-490 BC. Head of Apollo facing almost fully front / Quadripartite incuse square divided wheel-like, with small circle in the centre. SNG von Aulock 7902; Klein 400. | Text | Image |
| SNG vA 7904 | Kolophon, Ionia, AR hemiobol, 525-490 BC. 8mm, 0.33 g. Archaic head of Apollo right / Incuse quadripartite granulated square with dot in centre. SNG von Aulock 7904; Milne 12; Dessau II, 709J; Klein 401-402. | Text | Image |
| SNG vA 7914 | Kolophon, Ionia, AE12 Chalkous, 330-285 BC. Laureate head of Apollo right / KOΛ ΔHIKΛOΣ, free horse standing right with foreleg raised. SNG von Aulock 7914. | Text | Image |
| SNG vA 7915 | Kolophon, Ionia, AE12 Chalkous, 285-190 BC. Laureate head of Apollo right / KOΛ MHTΡOΔΩΡ, free horse standing right with foreleg raised. SNG von Aulock 7915. | Text | Image |
| RPC 1053 | Domitia, AE19 of Kolophon, Ionia. AD 82-96. ΔOMITIA CEBACTH, diademed, draped bust right / KOΛOΦΩ ΛHTΩ, Leto standing left, holding sceptre. Milne 182a corr (rev legend and Leto described as Apollo); RPC 1053. | Text | Image |
| BMC 48 | Caracalla, AE22 of Kolophon, Ionia. AD 198-217. 5.35 g. AYT M AYΡ ANTΩNEINOC, laureate head right. / KOΛOΦΩNIΩN, Zeus-Serapis seated left, polos on head, holding sceptre and extending hand to Kerberos at foot left. BMC 48; Milne Kolophon 203. | Text | Image |
| Dessau 813 | Caracalla AE35 of Kolophon, Ionia. AD 198-217. Magistrate Tib. Claud. Myronus. M AYΡ ANTΩNEINOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. / EΠI CTΡ TIB KΛAY MYΡΩNOC TO B KOΛOΦΩNIΩN, Hygieia standing right, feeding serpent in arma and facing Asklepios, standing front, looking left, leaning on serpent-entwined staff. Telesphorus wearing hooded cloak standing facing between them. Dessau II 813 (this coin); Milne Kolophon 202A (this coin cited but Telesphorus overlooked); Mionnet Supp VI, 143. | Text | Image |
| Milne 199 | Caracalla, AE21 of Kolophon, Ionia. AD 198-217. 4.48 g. AYT K M AY ANTΩNEINOC, laureate head right. / KOΛOΦΩNIΩN, Apollo seated left by altar, holding patera and resting left hand on lyre. Milne Kolophon 199; Mionnet Supp. VI, 148. | Text | Image |
| Milne 216A | Maximinus I AE22 of Kolophon, Ionia. AD 235-238. 4.2 g. Γ I OYH MAΞIMEINOC, laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right, seen from the back / KOΛOΦΩNIΩN, Tyche standing left, holding rudder and cornucopiae. Milne 216A; Vienna 31861. | Text | Image |
| Milne 222A | Gordian III, AE31 of Kolophon, Ionia. 8.66 gr. AVT K M ANT ΓOΡΔIANOC, laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right / EΠI CTΡ AYΡ MAΡKOY KOΛOΦΩNIΩN around and beneath Apollo seated left, holding branch and resting left hand on lyre. Milne 222A-F; Hunter 8; BMC 50. | Text | Image |
| Milne 223 | Gordian III AE of Kolophon, Ionia. 5.73 g. AYT K M ANT ΓOΡΔIANOC, laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right / KOΛOΦΩNIΩN, Serapis seated left, holding corn-ears and sceptre, Cerberus at feet. RPC 352; Milne 223. | Text | Image |
| Milne 227 | Philip I, 244-249 AD. AE35 (18.55g). AVT K M IOYΛ ΦIΛIΠΠOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / EΠI CTΡ AYΡ AICXΡION COΓ KOΛOΦΩNIΩN (partially in monogram form), Apollo Klarias seated left, holding laurel branch and lyre. Milne 227; Lindgren and Kovacs 449. | Text | Image |
| Milne 232 | Otacilia Severa, AE of Kolophon, Ionia. 9.76 g. EΠ CT AYΡ ΛOYKIΩN KOΛOΦΩNIΩN, Apollo seated left, holding branch and lyre. Milne 232. | Text | Image |
| Milne 247A | Trajan Decius, Kolophon, Ionia, Ae 29, 9.0g. [AYT K] TΡAIANOC ΔEKIOC, Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / EΠI AYΡ AΛEXANΔΡOC KOΛOΦΩ-NI-ΩN (across fields), naked boxer standing right. Milne 247A. | Text | Image |
| BMC 58 | Herennius Etruscus, AE29 of Kolophon, Ionia. 250-251 AD. KV EΠ ETΠ ME ΔEKIOC KAI, bare-headed, cuirassed bust right / EΠI CTΡA ΦΛ AΓAΘOKΛEOVC KOΛOΦONIΩN, boxer standing right. BMC 58. | Text | Image |
| Milne 251 | Herennia Etruscilla, AE29 of Kolophon, Ionia. AD 249-251. Magistrate Fl. Agathokleos. EΡEN ETΡOYCKIΛΛA CEB, draped bust right, wearing stephane, on crescent / EΠI CTΡA ΦΛ AΓAΘOKΛEOYΣ KOΛOΦΩ-NI-ΩN (ΠI and TΡ ligate) around and across fields, naked athlete or boxer walking right. BMC 57; Milne Kolophon 251. | Text | Image |
| Milne 255 | Trebonianus Gallus, AE of Kolophon, Ionia. 16.28 gr. 251-253 AD. AVK Γ OVIB TΡEBΩNIABIC ΓAΛΛOC, laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right / EΠI CTΡ KAΛΛIC-TO-Y IEΡEΩC IΩNΩN KOΛOΦΩNIO, TO KOINON TΩ-IΩNΩN in fields, Temple precinct of Apollo Klarios: at the top, front view of the temple with seated deity within, holding branch in right hand and resting left on lyre; humped bull standing left before an altar at the front, surrounded by a semi-circle of the 13 representatives of the Ionian League, each holding a wreath aloft. Milne 255. Mionnet III, 143. | Text | Image |
| Note: | The Milne references above refer to "Kolphon and Its Coinage, A Study" by J. G. Milne which was published in ANS Numismatic Notes and Monographs 96 in 1941. It is available free to all at Hathitrust thanks to the generosity of the ANS. | ||
