Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Æ 9
| Issuer | Autokane |
|---|---|
| Year | 400 BC - 300 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Bare head of Apollo facing right, rendered in archaic Greek style typical of fourth-century Mysian civic coinage. The portrait is small and somewhat schematic, consistent with the miniature module of this bronze issue. The surface shows characteristic olive-green patination with areas of darker encrustation obscuring fine detail. No legend is present on the obverse. The flan is irregularly shaped and slightly convex. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Forepart of a boar advancing to the right, a common device on coinage associated with cities of the Troad and Mysia. The Greek ethnic legend AYTOKANA is inscribed around or within the field, identifying the issuing city of Autokane. The overall design is compact and summarily engraved, consistent with the small bronze denominations produced by minor Mysian communities during the fourth century BC. Heavy patination and surface corrosion partially obscure the type. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Autokane was a minor Aeolian settlement on the Mysian coast, near the mouth of the Caicus River, whose coinage output was minimal even by the standards of small Greek civic mints. Issues attributable to the town are rare enough that scholarly consensus on its precise civic status — whether fully autonomous polis or dependent settlement — remains unsettled.