Zwei neue kleinasiatische Münzstätten

Abstract

In the von Aulock collection there are two coins each of which comes from a hitherto unknown mint. The first is a hemiobol of 0.38 g with an eagle's head to the left and the trace of an erased letter, and on the reverse, in an incuse square, HPAK. Only this reverse inscription distinguishes the piece from the ordinary hemiobols of Kyme in Aeolis, to whose obverse die it belongs and which are dated to about the middle of the fifth century BC; since magistrates' names were not yet usual then, HPAK must point to a place named Herakleia near Kyme. A boundary stone on the northern slope of Mount Sipylos east of Menemen attests a Herakleia am Sipylos some twenty to twenty-five kilometres southeast of Kyme.

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Suggested citation

Mørkholm, Otto: Zwei neue kleinasiatische Münzstätten. In: Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte 14 (1964), pp. 77–78, Tf.4.

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