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The Coinage of the Lycian League by By Hyla Troxell. USED
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. As new
condition, but back of the cover shopsoiled.
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). |
