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Greek Coins - page #2
Listed below you will find more coins produced by ancient Greece, including
coins of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian Kingdom, Mysia, Macedonia, and
Mesembria. Ancient Greek coinage was produced with many beautiful as well as
interesting motifs, included among these were images of Gorgons, the best known
of these Gorgons was Medusa, while Medusa's face was supposed to have been
beautiful, the faces of the Gorgons on the coins of ancient Greece usually have
hideous looking faces with protruding tongues, and stylized hair to represent
snakes.
| (GS0017) The Macedonian Kingdom, Philip II, 359-336 B.C. |
| AR Fifth-stater |
| Obv. - Head of Apollo right, hair bound with taina. |
| Rev. - Naked youth on horse prancing right, sequence mark
below. |
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| Attribution: Sear Greek Coins - 6689(v) |
| (GS0004) Mysia: Parium, 4th Century B.C. |
| AR Hemidrachm |
| Obv. - Bull standing left, head reverted, licking flank. |
| Rev. - Gorgoneion facing. |
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| Attribution: Sear Greek Coins - 3920(v) |
| (GS0019) Mysia, Parion, 350-300 B.C. |
| AR Hemidrachm |
| Obv. - Bull standing left, looking back. |
| Rev. - Gorgoneion. |
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| Attribution: Sear Greek Coins - 3920(v) |
| (GS0002) Macedonia, Alexander III (The Great), 336-323 B.C. |
| AR Tetradrachm, Posthumous issue - 175-125 B.C. |
| Obv. - Head of Hercules right, wearing lion's scalp. |
| Rev. - Zeus seated left, holding eagle, helmet MA in field,
monogram below throne. |
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| (GS0001) Mesembria, Alexander III (The Great), 336-323 B.C. |
| AR Tetradrachm, Posthumous issue - 175-125 B.C. |
| Obv. - Head of Hercules right, wearing lion's scalp. |
| Rev. - Zeus seated left, holding eagle, helmet and
D in field, monogram below throne. |
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| (GS0003) Alexander III (The Great), 336-323 B.C. |
| AR Tetradrachm, Posthumous issue - 175-125 B.C. |
| Obv. - Head of Hercules right, wearing lion's scalp. |
| Rev. - Zeus seated left, holding eagle,
YEM in field, monogram below throne. |
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| (GS0005) Northern Greece, Islands of Thrace: Thasos, after
circa. 146 B.C. |
| AR Tetradrachm |
| Obv. - Head of young Dionysos right, wreathed with ivy and
with band across forehead. |
| Rev. - Hercules , naked, standing left, holding club,
lion's skin over left arm monogram in field to left. |
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| Attribution: Sear Greek Coins - 1759 |
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