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!
Hemidrachm - Menestratos
| Issuer | Stratonikeia |
|---|---|
| Year | 133 BC - 125 BC |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Hemidrachm (1/2) |
| 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 | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Eagle standing right, with a torch and quiver placed before it in the field. The entire design is contained within a shallow incuse square, a distinctive feature of Stratonikeian coinage. The eagle, rendered in the Hellenistic tradition, serves as a symbol of Zeus. The magistrate's name appears in the legend, identifying this issue within the civic coinage series of Stratonikeia. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Stratonikeia, Caria |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Stratonikeia, the Carian city refounded by Antiochos I and named for his wife Stratonike, issued civic coinage with increasing autonomy as Seleucid power collapsed following Apameia in 188 BC. By the window of this issue, the city had come under Rhodian influence and then, after 167 BC, operated as a nominally free polis — a status Rome periodically confirmed and the Rhodians bitterly resented. The magistrate name Menestratos appears on a tight cluster of issues assignable to this decade by die study and hoard evidence.