Coins from ancient Greece: Bruttium, Cyzicus, Miletus, Ephesus. (530-330 BC).

[Luis Cozeto]

- Bruttium, Rhegion. AR LITRA, 420-410 BC, 10mm,0,73g, silver.
- Mysia-Kyzikos/ Cyzicus, AR trihemiobol 450-400 BC.
- Ionia, Miletus, 530-510 BC, AR Diobol , SNB Kayhan 471-2.
- Ionia, Ephesos, Ar Diobol, 390-325 BC. SNG Cop. 242, SNG Kayhan 208-42.

[THCoins]

Very nice animal portraits !
These look like quite small coins. Do you know what denomination they are ?

Anthony

[ghipszky]

They are all beautiful.
Ginger

[Tirant]

They all look great, i like specially the Cyzicus trihemiobol.

[ghipszky]

Luis,
Is that a bee on the coin to the far right in the photo?
Ginger

[Figleaf]

It is, Ginger. Ephesus was known for its honey production, so you are looking at a classical age advertisement.

Philostratos, a Greek teacher and author, says Muzes, taking on the shape of bees, had guided a group of colonists from Athens to Ephesus. And so, Ephesians liked bees. They constructed a temple devoted to Artemis. As was the case in other Greek settlements, the priestesses were affectionally called melissae: bees, likely in reference to the Melissa who fed baby Zeus while hiding from his father, who wanted his son as lunch.

Peter