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!
Drachm - Moiras
| Issuer | Kolophon |
|---|---|
| Year | 310 BC - 294 BC |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | 3.05 g |
| 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 | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | A kithara (lyre) depicted frontally and centrally on the flan, its resonating body, arms, and crossbar rendered with precise detail, the strings clearly articulated in the field. The magistrate's name ΚΟΛΟΦ (partially visible to the left) and ΜΟΙΡΑΣ (to the right) flank the instrument, identifying the issuing magistrate. The design is characteristic of the Apollo/kithara type coinage of Kolophon during the late 4th to early 3rd century BC. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | ΜΟΙΡΑΣ |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Kolophon's late fourth-century silver coinage was struck during a period of sustained Macedonian pressure on the Ionian coast, with the city cycling through the control of competing Diadochi generals following Alexander's death in 323 BC. The magistrate name Moiras appears on a handful of die-linked pieces within this emission, placing production somewhere in the contested window before Lysimachus consolidated Ionian territory around 294 BC.
The Milne reference gap is not unusual for this series — Kolophonian small silver of this period remains incompletely catalogued.