Katalog
Vollständige Bilder anzeigen — kostenlose Registrierung
Mit Google fortfahren — kostenlos
oder mit E-Mail registrieren
Warum registrieren? Nur um Bots aus unserem Katalog fernzuhalten. Ihre E-Mail bleibt privat — wir geben sie nie weiter und senden Ihnen nichts Unerwünschtes. Das garantieren wir Ihnen!
Didrachm
| Emittent | Kalymna |
|---|---|
| Jahr | 260 BC - 205 BC |
| Typ | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Nennwert | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Währung | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Material | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Gewicht | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Durchmesser | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Dicke | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Form | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Prägetechnik | Hammered |
| Ausrichtung | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Stempelschneider | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Im Umlauf bis | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Referenz(en) | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Aversbeschreibung | Helmeted head of Athena facing right, rendered in fine archaic-influenced style typical of Karian island coinage. The goddess wears a Corinthian helmet pushed back on her head, with a prominent cheek guard and a decorative scroll-curl visible above the ear. The hair falls in a gentle wave beneath the helmet rim. The portrait is boldly struck in high relief, occupying the full field of the flan with no surrounding legend. |
|---|---|
| Aversschrift | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Averslegende | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Reversbeschreibung | A lyre depicted facing, rendered in fine detail with seven strings visible between the two curved arms of the instrument, which terminate in volute scrolls at their upper ends. The crossbar at the top connects two lateral projections, and the base of the lyre rests on a plain ground line. The ethnic legend KAΛYMNION is inscribed in Greek characters beneath the lyre, curved along the lower rim of the coin. A border of dots surrounds the entire design. |
| Reversschrift | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Reverslegende | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Rand | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Prägestätte | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Auflage | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Zusätzliche Informationen |
Kalymna — the island now known as Kalymnos — operated as an independent polis with its own mint during this period, though its output was modest compared to neighboring Rhodian issues that increasingly dominated Aegean commerce. The island's sponge-diving economy and strategic position between Kos and the Dodecanese gave it enough commercial activity to sustain a coinage, but the mint ran intermittently rather than continuously, which accounts for the relative scarcity of surviving examples across all types.
HGC 6, 1283 is among the scarcer Kalymnian didrachm references, with few specimens appearing in major auction records.