![]() The Pactolus River (Sart Çayı) beside the slopes of Mount Tmolus (Boz Dağ) in the kingdom of Lydia was one of the most important sources of electrum in the ancient world, and just as the rulers of the Middle East today have become wealthy from oil, so the ancient Lydian kings became rich by accumulating and minting coins from electrum. The earliest coins were not made of gold or silver but of electrum, a naturally occurring gold-silver alloy. Lydia does not have many marvelous things to write about in comparison with other countries, except for the gold dust that is carried down from Mount Tmolus. ![]() (1) The Electrum Lion Coins of the Ancient Lydians (before Croesus) PAGES: Illustrated table of contents- Illustrated numerical catalogue- History and weight standards- Chronological table- The electrum lion coins of the kings of Lydia (1)- The enigmatic “geometric” electrum series (1)- The sixth-century electrum lion coins of Miletus (2)- The electrum and silver lion/scorpion issues (3)- The silver eye-swirl/quincunx fractions (12)- The dotted lion-mask series (7)- The archaic twelfth-stater series (21)- The silver Milesian-style lion/bird fractions (14)- The lion-head/lion-scalp series (2)- Milesian imitatives of Hecatomnus, Mausolus, and Hidrieus (2)- The fourth-century bronze lion/sun series (3)- The Rhodian silver and bronze Apollo/lion series (7)- Early silver and bronze of Alexander the Great (5)- The reduced-Rhodian didrachms and their parallel bronzes (3)- The later Diadochian and civic Alexander types (2)- The third-century Persic silver and bronze Apollo/lion series (2)- The bronze facing-Apollo coinage (6)- The second-century silver Apollo/lion issues (5)- The wreathed bronze Apollo/lion series (8)- The bronze Apollo of Didyma series (2)- Provincial bronzes of Nero (2)- Provincial bronzes of Domitian (1)- Provincial bronzes of Faustina the Younger (1)- Provincial bronzes of Gordian III (1)- The Ottoman silver akçes of fifteenth-century Balad (1)- References and literature cited- Ancient coin resources online. These pages discuss the early history of coinage and present a detailed outline of Milesian coin types from the Greek and Roman periods. It has been called the birthplace of the modern world. O’Hara ancient Greek city of Miletus in Asia Minor, on what is now the west coast of Turkey, was the intellectual and commercial center of the Greek world in the century before Athens rose to prominence. Please contact for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.Coins of Miletus > Lydian Electrum | Previous | Next Ancient Greek Coins of Miletus Robert J. ![]() Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. This collection was digitized by Cornell University Library in 2011 from original materials, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt. The content in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Coins Collection (in part Greek and Roman Coin Collection, #8464, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections) is believed to be in the public domain by virtue of the age of the underlying coins, and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.ĭivision of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Collecting Program:Ĭornell Collections of Antiquities Format: Items in the Cornell Coins Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes Uncertain design in square frame Reverse:
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