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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. Used, Very Fine near new condition. Bargain.
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). |
