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The Coinage of the Lycian League by By Hyla Troxell.
Published by the American
Numismatic Society, New York, 1982. Numismatic Notes and Monographs, No. 162. 255 pages
and 43 excellent plates of coins. Hard cover, light tan cloth, 16 x 23 cm.
This great
book covers four hoards (Lycia 1977 Hoard; Lycia 1935 Hoard; Kemer 1970 Hoard & the
Marmmaris 1976 Hoard) central to the understanding of the League's coinage. There are
approximately 1,825 coins catalogued in this book.
The first part of the book provides a
catalogue of the coins broken down into five periods (with a Period used to denote the
five major divisions of the League's coinage, alternating bronze and silver):
Period I:
Bronzes of Lycia in Genere (Three demoninations, ca. 200-167 B.C.); Period II: Silver of
the Cities (Drachms, 167 B.C. or later-ca. 84-81 B.C.; Series 1 -Series 3 Mints) Period
III: Bronzes of the Cities (Three demoninations, ca. 100?-mid 30s B.C.; Mints:
Antiphellus-Xanthus) Period IV: Silver of the Districts(Drachms, hemidrachms and quarter
drachms, mid 40s-after 19/18 B.C.; Mints: Cragus-Tlos-Cargus) Period V: Bronzes of the
Districts(Four or more denominiations, and also sestertii and dupondii, late 30s B.C.-ca.
A,D 40?) The Actual Minting places of the Lycian League coinage Index of Issues by Mint
Appendices (Misattributions, forgeries, Cluadius' Lycian Coinage, Aperlae Drachm). There
are 44 black and white plates of the discussed coins and 255 pages of text. There is also
a key to abbreviations, historical background and a guide to the catalogue.
Lycia, which
had been under Rhodian control since the Peace of Apamea in 188 B.C., was granted
independence by the Romans at the conclusion of the Third Macedonian War. The Lycian
League served as the over-arching organizational body of the poleis. The League produced a
uniform type of silver and bronze coins, although each polis retained its own right to
mint. These coins conformed to the Rhodian drachma type. Adjustments came with the
replacement of the head of Helios by that of Apollo or Artemis and the Rhodian rose by the
kithara (or the bow and quiver). |
