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Nikogenes the younger

Definition
Third magistrate attested in Athens in 135/134 BC. From Philaidai. Son of the other Nikogenes, who signed as third magistrate in the same issue 30 as well. Thus he held the third magistracy in the same year as his father. To distinguish two persons he was explicitly named "the younger" (ΝΙΚΟΓ ΝΕ[ώτερος]): See M. Thompson, The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens (1961) nos. 351, 353-354 / issue 30 (p. 576-577); C. Habicht, Zu den Münzmagistraten der Silberprägung des Neuen Stils, Chiron 21, 1991, pp. 5 and 19-20 (135/134 BC); Prosopographia Attica 10850; P. M. Fraser – E. Matthews, A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names II Attica (1994) p. 335 s. v. Nikogenes, no. 2; W. Leschhorn, Lexikon der Aufschriften auf griechischen Münzen II (2009) p. 713 s. v. Nikogenes.
Type
Person, Concept

Thaena

Definition
The mint at the ancient site of Thaena in Byzacene.
Type
Mint, Concept

Masinissa

Definition
Masinissa was the first King of Numidia. During his younger years, before he was king, he fought in the Second Punic War (218–201 BC), first against the Romans as an ally of Carthage and later switching sides (206 BC). With Roman support, he united the eastern and western Numidian tribes and founded the Kingdom of Numidia.
Type
Person, Concept

Baghdad

Definition
Baghdad (Arabic: بغداد‎ Baġdād, Kurdish بەغدا, Bexda) is the capital of the Republic of Iraq, as well as the coterminous Baghdad Province.
Type
Mint, Concept

Agathocles of Bactria

Definition
Agathocles Dikaios was a Graeco-Bactrian/Indo-Greek king who ruled in the early second century BCE. His coinage indicates he was a successor of Demetrius I and Pantaleon.
Type
Person, Concept

Murad IV

Definition
Murad IV (Ottoman Turkish: مراد رابع Murād-ı Rābi‘) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1623 to 1640, known both for restoring the authority of the state and for the brutality of his methods.
Type
Person, Concept

Aelius Comf... Neikias

Definition
Strategos in Adramyteum (Mysia). His name appears on coins issued under Elagabalus, always including his title. See J. Stauber, Die Bucht von Adramytteion, Inschriften griechischer Städte aus Kleinasien 51 (1996) pp. 189, 229 f. no. 222; W. Leschhorn, Lexikon der Aufschriften auf griechischen Münzen II (2009) p. 704 s. v. Neikias; Th. Corsten, Lexicon of Greek Personal Names V A. Coastal Asia Minor (2010) p. 335 s. v. Nikias no. 68; D. Calomino, RPC VI temp. nos. 4124-4125 supposes "Ail. Kom. Ph. (son of?) Nikias".
Type
Person, Concept

Epirote League

Definition
The Epirote League (Northwestern Greek: Κοινὸν Ἀπειρωτᾶν, Koinon Apeirotan) was an ancient Greek coalition (koinon) of Epirote communities.
Type
Organization, Concept

Stobi

Definition
The mint at the ancient site of Stobi in Macedonia.
Type
Mint, Concept

Gadiauphala

Definition
The mint at the ancient site of Gadiauphala in Numidia
Type
Mint, Concept

Protes (III)

Definition
An individual who issued coins at the ancient city of Abdera, 411/410-386/385 BC. See J. May, The Coinage of Abdera (540-345 B.C.) (London, 1966), pp. 44-48.
Type
Person, Concept

Denomination E

Definition
A modern denomination designation of uncertain value for Indo-Greek bronze coins.
Type
Denomination, Concept

Ococleia

Definition
The mint at the ancient site of Ococleia in Phrygia.
Type
Mint, Concept

Denver

Definition
The United States mint in the city of Denver, Colorado.
Type
Mint, Concept

Zoe Porphyrogenita

Definition
The Byzantine empress Zoe Porphyrogenita.
Type
Person, Concept

Cast

Definition
Technique of manufacture by pouring into a mould.
Type
Manufacture, Concept

Abiel daughter of Baglan

Definition
Abiel daughter of Baglan issued coins in Eastern Arabia in the 3rd century BCE.
Type
Person, Concept

Scotussa

Definition
The mint at the ancient site of Scotussa in Thessaly.
Type
Mint, Concept

Cremna

Definition
The mint at the ancient site of Cremna in Pisidia.
Type
Mint, Concept

Chalkous

Definition
An ancient denomination with the value of 1 chalkous
Type
Denomination, Concept

Half siliqua

Definition
Roman silver denomination.
Type
Denomination, Concept

Demetrius II of Bactria

Definition
Demetrius II was a Graeco-Bactrian king who ruled in the mid second century BCE
Type
Person, Concept

M. Barbatius Pollio

Definition
Roman Republican Moneyer, c. 41 BC
Type
Person, Concept

Elpaal of Byblus

Definition
Ruler of Byblos in the 4th century BC
Type
Person, Concept

Melekiathon of Citium

Definition
Early fourth century Phoenician king of Citium.
Type
Person, Concept

C. Clovius

Definition
Roman Republican Moneyer, c. 45 BC
Type
Person, Concept

Oly…

Definition
Third magistrate attested in Athens in 97/96 BC: See M. Thompson, The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens (1961) nos. 883, 903, 906-907 / issue 66 (p. 578); C. Habicht, Zu den Münzmagistraten der Silberprägung des Neuen Stils, Chiron 21, 1991, p. 5 (99/98 BC); H. B. Mattingly, NC 157, 1971, 258 and W. Leschhorn, Lexikon der Aufschriften auf griechischen Münzen II (2009) p. 727 s. v. Oly- (97/96 BC).
Type
Person, Concept

Palaeobeudos

Definition
The mint at the ancient site of Palaeobeudos in Phrygia
Type
Mint, Concept

Najm al-Din Ghazi I al-Sa'id

Definition
Najm al-Din Ghazi I al-Sa'id (637-658/1239-1260) was a ruler of the Mardin branch of the Artuqid dynasty.
Type
Person, Concept

Zilis

Definition
The mint at the ancient site of Zilis in Mauretania.
Type
Mint, Concept

Gold

Definition
'AV' is the numismatic abbreviation for gold.
Type
Material, Concept

Acrae

Definition
The mint at the ancient site of Acrae in Sicily.
Type
Mint, Concept

M. Aemilius Scaurus

Definition
Roman Republican Moneyer, c. 58 BC
Type
Person, Concept

Bargylia

Definition
The mint at the ancient site of Bargylia in Caria.
Type
Mint, Concept

Cyaneae

Definition
The mint at the ancient site of Cyaneae in Lycia.
Type
Mint, Concept

Sybert von Eykenich

Definition
Appointed Mintmaster in Cologne (City), Germany, in 1479, Lit.: Alfred Noss, Die Münzen der Städte Köln und Neuss: 1474-1794 (1926), p. 16, 47.
Type
Person, Concept

Modern European Numismatics

Definition
The study of the coins, other numismatic items and numismatic history in Europe since the post-medieval period (roughly 1500).
Type
Field of Numismatics, Concept

Pyrrhus

Definition
Pyrrhus was a Greek general and statesman of the Hellenistic period. He was king of the Greek tribe of Molossians, of the royal Aeacid house (from c. 297 BC), and later he became king of Epirus (r. 306–302, 297–272 BC). He was one of the strongest opponents of early Rome.
Type
Person, Concept

Strip

Definition
A metal strip that is used for the production of coins.
Type
Object Type, Concept

Iulius Glaukos

Definition
Strategos in Cyzicus/Mysia during the reign of Traianus. His name appears on coins always in comibation with his title of Strategos. Leschhorn and LGPN read "Iulius" as nomen gentile and ΕΠ ΙΟΥΛ…, the authors of RPC III assume "Ulpius" and therefore read ΕΠΙ ΟΥΛ…. For the coins see F. Jodin, Revue Numismatique 154, 1999, pp. 140-141 nos. 31-33; RPC III nos. 1492-1495. Lit.: W. Leschhorn, Lexikon der Aufschriften auf griechischen Münzen II (2009) p. 419 s. v. Glaukos (AD 98-117); Th. Corsten (ed.), Lexicon of Greek Personal Names V A. Coastal Asia Minor (2010) p. 110 s. v. Glaukos (no. 35) (AD 98-117); RPC III p. 181 (AD 102 and later).
Type
Person, Concept

Bes

Definition
The bes was an Ancient Roman bronze coin produced during the Roman Republic. Valued at two-thirds of an as (8 unciae), it was only produced in 126 BC by C. Cassius in combination with the dodrans, another very rare denomination which was valued at three-fourths of an as.
Type
Denomination, Concept

Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi

Definition
Abu Muhammad Abdallah al-Mahdi Billah (Arabic: أبو محمد عبيد الله المهدي بالله‎), was the founder of the Fatimid Caliphate, the only major Shi'a caliphate in Islam, and established Fatimid rule throughout much of North Africa.
Type
Person, Concept

Datames of Cappadocia

Definition
Datames was a satrap in Achaemenid Cappadocia from 380-362 B.C.
Type
Person, Concept

L. Cosconius

Definition
Roman Republican Moneyer, c. 118 BC
Type
Person, Concept

Phanaos

Definition
An individual who issued coins at the ancient city of Abdera, 439/437-411/410 BC. See J. May, The Coinage of Abdera (540-345 B.C.) (London, 1966), pp. 44-48.
Type
Person, Concept

C. Claudius Marcellus

Definition
Roman Republican Moneyer, c. 49 BC
Type
Person, Concept

Heinrich Udesheim

Definition
The Bonn goldsmith Heinrich Udesheim was appointed General Warden of the Archbishopric Cologne on 7 September 1717, but was dismissed in 1728 following his conviction for embezzlement. He was listed as goldsmith (in the Bonngasse) in both 1773 and 1785. Lit.: Alfred Noss, Die Münzen der Erzbischöfe von Köln 1547-1794 (1925) pp. 313, 338; Wolfgang Scheffler, Goldschmiede Rheinland-Westfalens - Aachen - Köln (1973) n. 11 p. 91.
Type
Person, Concept

Jacob Kohlhaas

Definition
Mintmaster in Bonn, a city in Germany, from 1739 to about 1776, in which year he is thought to have died, with monogram I K. Kohlaas was the son-in-law of Hittorff's widow. Lit.: Alfred Noss, Die Münzen der Erzbischöfe von Köln 1547-1794 (1925) pp. 350, 353, 415.
Type
Person, Concept

Stein am Rhein

Definition
The medieval mint of Stein am Rhein.
Type
Mint, Concept

Alexios II of Trebizond

Definition
The emperor of Trebizond Alexios II.
Type
Person, Concept

Uncertain Mint 13

Definition
Uncertain Mint 13, probably in Western Arachosia (Kritt's "Mint Z")
Type
Mint, Concept

Plarasa

Definition
The mint at the ancient site of Plarasa in Caria.
Type
Mint, Concept

Gambrium

Definition
The mint at the ancient site of Gambrium in Mysia.
Type
Mint, Concept

Cassander

Definition
Cassander, the eldest son of Antipater and a contemporary of Alexander the Great, was king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon from 305 BC until 297 BC, and de facto ruler of much of Greece from 317 BC until his death.
Type
Person, Concept

2 1/2 Nummi

Definition
A coin identified to have been valued as 2 1/2 nummi, and often also called a minimus (without any valuation in nummi). Compare M. Metlich, The coinage of Ostrogothic Italy (London 2004).
Type
Denomination, Concept

Apex and Hammer (Republican Moneyer)

Definition
Symbol of Roman Republican issuing authority, c. 211-208 BCE
Type
Person, Concept

Geneva

Definition
The mint(s) in Geneva, the capital of the Republic and Canton of Geneva. Starting in Merowingian and Carolingian times, Geneva was the mint for the Prince-Bishopric of Geneva, the County of Geneva, the Republic and the Canton of Geneva. The duchy of Savoy issued coins in their mint at Cornavin, then just outside of Geneva, now in the centre of the city.
Type
Mint, Concept

Boeotian League

Definition
The Boeotian League was a conglomeration of eleven sovereign city-states within the historical region of Boeotia, primarily administered from Thebes. The league effectively came to an end as an independent political entity with the destruction of Thebes by Alexander the Great in 335 B.C.
Type
Organization, Concept

Q. Aelius Lamia

Definition
Roman moneyer operating under the authority of Augustus.
Type
Person, Concept

Basil II

Definition
The Byzantine emperor Basil II.
Type
Person, Concept

Tisna

Definition
The mint at the ancient site of Tisna in Aeolis
Type
Mint, Concept

Deonys

Definition
An individual who issued coins at the ancient city of Abdera, 473/470-449/448 BC. See J. May, The Coinage of Abdera (540-345 B.C.) (London, 1966), pp. 44-48.
Type
Person, Concept

Angermünde

Definition
The mint(s) at the City of Angermünde, National State of Brandenburg, Germany.
Type
Mint, Concept

Pautalia

Definition
The mint at the ancient site of Pautalia in Thrace.
Type
Mint, Concept

Deiotarus Philadelphus

Definition
Deiotarus Philadelphus (died A.D. 6) was the final client-king of Paphlagonia before its absorption into the Roman province of Bithynia.
Type
Person, Concept

Neapolis

Definition
The mint at the ancient site of Neapolis in Campania.
Type
Mint, Concept

1/20 stater

Definition
An ancient denomination with the value of 1/20 stater
Type
Denomination, Concept

Uqaylids

Definition
The 'Uqailids or 'Uqaylid dynasty was a Shi'a Arab dynasty with several lines that ruled in various parts of Al-Jazira, northern Syria and Iraq in the late tenth and eleventh centuries. The main line, centered in Mosul, ruled from 990 to 1096.
Type
Family, Concept

Johann Förster

Definition
Mintmaster in Neuss, Germany from 1579 to ? Lit.: Alfred Noss, Die Münzen der Städte Köln und Neuss: 1474-1794 (1926), pp. 47-49
Type
Person, Concept

Period 24

Definition
Anastasius to Justinian
Type
Period, Concept

Metropolis

Definition
The mint at the ancient site of Metropolis in Thessaly.
Type
Mint, Concept

Osset

Definition
The mint at the ancient site of Osset in Hispania Ulterior.
Type
Mint, Concept

Taler (Salzburg Loewentaler)

Definition
Designed on behalf of Hieronymus Graf von Colloredo, archbishop of Salzburg, in 1790, these Taler coins had to be melted down again because the Elector of Bavaria did sucessfully object to the use of lions - a secular privilege - on the reverse of a coin issued by an ecclesiastical authority.
Type
Denomination, Concept

Vadfradad V of Persis

Definition
Vadfradad V was ruler of Persis under Parthia in the late 1st to early 2nd century AD
Type
Person, Concept

Pronnoi

Definition
The mint at the ancient site of Pronnoi on Cephallenia, off Elis.
Type
Mint, Concept

Currency

Definition
A system of money (monetary units) in common use, issued by a state, city, or any other legal authority, consisting of various subunits and multiples (denominations).
Type
Numismatic Term, Concept

Neomenios

Definition
An individual who issued coins at the ancient city of Maroneia, 386/385-348/347 BC. See E. Schönert-Geiss, Die Münzprägung von Maroneia (Berlin, 1987), pp. 44-45.
Type
Person, Concept

Qara Qoyunlu

Definition
The Kara Koyunlu or Qara Qoyunlu, also called the Black Sheep Turkomans (Persian: Qara Qoyunlu, قرا قویونلو), were a Shia Oghuz Turkic tribal federation that ruled over the territory comprising the present-day Azerbaijan, Armenia (1406), north-western Iran, eastern Turkey and Iraq from about 1375 to 1468.
Type
Organization, Concept

Samma . . (?)

Definition
Dynast of uncertain place in the Thraco-Macedonian region, known only from coins
Type
Person, Concept

Larinum

Definition
The mint at the ancient site of Larinum in the territory of the Frentani.
Type
Mint, Concept

C. Papirius Carbo

Definition
C. Papirius Carbo was governor of the Roman governor of the province of Bithynia and Pontus, c. 62-58 B.C.
Type
Person, Concept

Philip's Taler

Definition
The Daldre Philippus was first struck in 1539, and represents a Taler size coin issued in the Spanish Netherlands. The German term Philippstaler was used for all Dutch taler size coin bearing the portrait of King Philip II of Spain (also called Königstaler = king's taler). This term in a broad sense hence refers to the Daldre Philippus first struck in 1539, and the Burgundian Taler, also called Kreuzreichtaler in German (Daldre de Bourgogne), issued from 1567, see here under Burgundy Taler. These two taler denominations were replaced by the Albertustaler in 1612. Lit.: F. von Schrötter, Wörterbuch der Münzkunde (1930) s.v. Burgundischer Taler pp. 89-90.
Type
Denomination, Concept

Heliocles I of Bactria

Definition
Heliocles was a Graeco-Bactrian king and a successor of Eucratides I. He was probably among the final rulers of the Graeco-Bactrian kingdom in the mid second century BCE.
Type
Person, Concept

Emporiae

Definition
The mint at the ancient site of Emporiae (also known as Untikesken) in Hispania Citerior. Note, this URI is used for the Roman Provincial mint. For the Greek mint, use Emporion.
Type
Mint, Concept

Siculo-Punic

Definition
The Siculo Punic mint at an uncertain location in Sicily.
Type
Mint, Concept

Anti(…) (II)

Definition
An individual who issued coins at the ancient city of Abdera, 492-473/470 BC. See J. May, The Coinage of Abdera (540-345 B.C.) (London, 1966), pp. 44-48.
Type
Person, Concept

Icus

Definition
The mint at the ancient site of Icus on Alonissos off Thessaly.
Type
Mint, Concept

Kingdom of Armenia

Definition
The Kingdom of Armenia, also the Kingdom of Greater Armenia, was a monarchy in the Ancient Near East which existed from 321 BC to 428 AD. Its history is divided into successive reigns by three royal dynasties: Orontid (321 BC–200 BC), Artaxiad (189 BC–12 AD) and Arsacid (52–428).
Type
Organization, Concept

Ifriqiyah

Definition
Ifriqiya or Ifriqiyah (Arabic: إفريقية‎ Ifrīqīya) or al-Maghrib al-Adna (Lower West) was the name of that area during medieval history that comprises what is todayTunisia, Tripolitania (western Libya) and the Constantinois (eastern Algeria); all part of what was previously included in the Africa Province of the Roman Empire.
Type
Mint, Concept

Kanites of Scythia

Definition
King of Scythia, c. 210-195 BC
Type
Person, Concept

Justinian I

Definition
Justinian I (play /dʒʌˈstɪniən/) (Latin: Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus Augustus, Greek: Φλάβιος Πέτρος Σαββάτιος Ἰουστινιανός) (c. 482 – 14 November 565), commonly known as Justinian the Great, was Byzantine Emperor from 527 to 565.
Type
Person, Concept

Orodes III of Parthia

Definition
Orodes III was king of the Parthian Empire from 4 to 6. Albeit he was an Arsacid, his lineage is unknown. He was raised to the throne by the nobility two years after the death of the previous co-rulers, Phraates V and Musa (r. 4 BC – 2 AD).
Type
Person, Concept

Ariarathes V of Cappadocia

Definition
Ariarathes V Eusebes Philopator (Ancient Greek: Ἀριαράθης Ε΄ Εὐσεβής Φιλοπάτωρ, Ariaráthēs Eusebḗs Philopátōr; reigned 163–130 BC) was a son of the preceding king Ariarathes IV of Cappadocia and queen Antiochis. He was distinguished by his contemporaries for his excellence of his character and his cultivation of philosophy and the liberal arts and is considered by some historians to have been the greatest of the kings of Cappadocia.
Type
Person, Concept

Searo

Definition
The mint at the ancient site of Searo in Hispania.
Type
Mint, Concept

Chaonians

Definition
The Chaonians (Ancient Greek: Χάονες) were a tribe that inhabited the region of Epirus currently part of north-western Greece and southern Albania.
Type
Organization, Concept

Demo…

Definition
Third magistrate attested in Athens in 123/122 BC: See M. Thompson, The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens (1961) nos. 484-487 / issue 41 (p. 559); C. Habicht, Zu den Münzmagistraten der Silberprägung des Neuen Stils, Chiron 21, 1991, p. 5 (124/123 BC); H. B. Mattingly, NC 157, 1997, p. 258 and W. Leschhorn, Lexikon der Aufschriften auf griechischen Münzen II (2009) p. 441 s. v. Demo- (123/122 BC).
Type
Person, Concept

Georg Nikolaus Riedner

Definition
Mintmaster in Nürnberg (Nuremberg), Franconia, Germany from 1764 to 1793. His initials are R or GNR. Lit.: Hans-Jörg Kellner, Die Münzen der Freien Reichsstadt Nürnberg (1957), p. 171
Type
Person, Concept

Denomination D

Definition
A modern denomination designation of uncertain value for Indo-Greek bronze coins.
Type
Denomination, Concept

Cassope

Definition
The mint at the ancient site of Cassope in Epirus.
Type
Mint, Concept

Diodoros

Definition
Second magistrate attested in Athens in 56/55 BC: See M. Thompson, The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens (1961) nos. 1269-1270 / her issue 107 (p. 560); C. Habicht, Zu den Münzmagistraten der Silberprägung des Neuen Stils, Chiron 21, 1991, pp. 6 and 17 (56/55 BC, his issue 109); Prosopographia Attica 3923; P. M. Fraser – E. Matthews, A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names II Attica (1994) p. 118 s. v. Diodoros, no. 34; W. Leschhorn, Lexikon der Aufschriften auf griechischen Münzen II (2009) p. 453 s. v. Diodoros.
Type
Person, Concept
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