Price 2803: Reattribution of a Macedonian Regal Bronze Coin from Western Asia  Minor to Tarsus in Cilicia

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Price 2803: Reattribution of a Macedonian Regal Bronze Coin from Western Asia Minor to Tarsus in Cilicia

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Mersin University

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OLBA 2021 Vol.XXIX Issue XXIX, pp.445-456

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Makale

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5/2021

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İngilizce

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2000530950

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Yıllık

eISSN:

2687-6558

pISSN:

1301-7667

Özet:

 

The subject of this article is the bronze issue which bears a shield ornamented with the head 
of Herakles to ¾ r. on the obverse and a helmet on the reverse side along with the initials B-A, 
monogram below left, and a kerykeion below right. These coins were issued to be given at the beginning of the month to meet the daily needs of soldiers in the Macedonian army. This issue 
has been classified under the title of Asia Minor and sometimes Western Asia Minor without 
any mint attribution in the main reference sources. However, there is no recorded example of 
these from archaeological excavations and surveys carried out in Western Anatolia. But these 
coins, which do not circulate in the west, appear in the Cilician region. Samples were found and 
recorded in the excavations of Nagidos, Olba and Tarsus Gözlükule. The most suitable minting 
place for these bronze coins, which are found intensely in and around Tarsus, is naturally Tarsus, 
the most important mint in the region of the Macedonian kingdom. On other Macedonian regal 
bronze coins minted in this city, the kerykeion symbol is often used and on some examples, 
both kerykeion and monogram are used. More than twenty of these bronze coins known to be 
included in museums of Ankara Anatolian Civilizations, Izmir, Sinop, Afyon and Adana are 
included in the Mersin Archeology Museum collection, which is located only 25 km from Tarsus; 
on the other side it does not circulate in Salamis and throughout Cyprus which issued bronze 
coins with a kerykeion symbol and monogram. These facts support the attribution to Tarsus.

Makale detayları

Price 2803: Reattribution of a Macedonian Regal Bronze Coin from Western Asia Minor to Tarsus in Cilicia

Yazarlar: Dinçer Savaş LENGER

Yayıncı: Mersin University

Ana Başlıklar: Antik dünya tarihi

Dergi: OLBA 2021 Vol.XXIX Issue XXIX, pp.445-456

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 5/2021

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000530950

Sıklık: Yıllık

eISSN: 2687-6558

pISSN: 1301-7667

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Dinçer Savaş LENGER

Yayıncı:

Mersin University

Ana Başlıklar:

Antik dünya tarihi

Dergi:

OLBA 2021 Vol.XXIX Issue XXIX, pp.445-456

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

5/2021

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000530950

Sıklık:

Yıllık

eISSN:

2687-6558

pISSN:

1301-7667