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DOI article:Bodzek, Jarosław: A note on a Satrapal coin - perhaps another Mazaces issue?
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Tom IX
ME mnsMniE
HPtSEt MKIUIHE
Kraków 2014
JAROSŁAW BODZEK
The National Museum in Kraków
A Notę on a Satrapal Coin - Perhaps
another Mazaces Issue?'
Over the past few years, various previously undocumented coins bearing im-
ages reminiscent of Achaemenid iconography have passed through the antiquities
market. Amongst these is an issue with an Iranian horseman on its reverse that
I hnd of particular interest. The horseman represents ' Aariant 2" of the type and de-
picts a gahoping cavalryman brandishing a javelin2 This paper's aim is to discuss
the coin's origins, dating, meaning and iconography.
The silver coin in question appeared on the antiquities market in 20 i 0
(PI. 1, Fig. 1)2 Based on its weight, the specimen can be classihed as either obol
or hemiobol.
MAZACES (?), Egypt (?), 333/332 BC (?)
OBVERSE: Małe figurę wearing an Iranian riding costume sitting on a throne facing right.
To the left is a linear device ("Mazaces symbol") and to the right the traces of a legend
(?)-'
REVERSE: Iranian horseman facing left and brandishing a javelin
AR. obol or hemiobol, 0.34 g
' t would like to thank łan Jenkins for correcting my Engiish. I am most gratefu! to Peter van Atfen for his
comments on the text. Any fauit is of my own doing.
FoHowingabbreviations are used in the paper: SNG FRANCE 2-SyllogeNummorum Graecorum. France 2.
Cabinet des Medailles, Cilicie, Paris i993; SNG LEVANTE - Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Switzerland
[. Levante-Ci)icia, Beme 1986.
* On the typology of Iranian horseman depictions on coins cf. J. BODZEK, 714 22471B477/7C4 AOA7/Z4Z4714.
w obrane /oł. 330-33? a.C.), Kraków 2011, p. 241ff.
^ Heidetberger Munzhandlung Herbert Grtin, Auction 54, 16.11.2010, no. 107; cf. BODZEK, 714
Z47R47777C4 NOM/ZAT4714..., PI. 12, 17.
" The cataloguer established which side was the obverse and which the reverse. It must therefore be stressed
that the coin is known to me exclusively from photographs and that 1 will only be able to guarantee which side is
which if permitted to directly examine the item.
ME mnsMniE
HPtSEt MKIUIHE
Kraków 2014
JAROSŁAW BODZEK
The National Museum in Kraków
A Notę on a Satrapal Coin - Perhaps
another Mazaces Issue?'
Over the past few years, various previously undocumented coins bearing im-
ages reminiscent of Achaemenid iconography have passed through the antiquities
market. Amongst these is an issue with an Iranian horseman on its reverse that
I hnd of particular interest. The horseman represents ' Aariant 2" of the type and de-
picts a gahoping cavalryman brandishing a javelin2 This paper's aim is to discuss
the coin's origins, dating, meaning and iconography.
The silver coin in question appeared on the antiquities market in 20 i 0
(PI. 1, Fig. 1)2 Based on its weight, the specimen can be classihed as either obol
or hemiobol.
MAZACES (?), Egypt (?), 333/332 BC (?)
OBVERSE: Małe figurę wearing an Iranian riding costume sitting on a throne facing right.
To the left is a linear device ("Mazaces symbol") and to the right the traces of a legend
(?)-'
REVERSE: Iranian horseman facing left and brandishing a javelin
AR. obol or hemiobol, 0.34 g
' t would like to thank łan Jenkins for correcting my Engiish. I am most gratefu! to Peter van Atfen for his
comments on the text. Any fauit is of my own doing.
FoHowingabbreviations are used in the paper: SNG FRANCE 2-SyllogeNummorum Graecorum. France 2.
Cabinet des Medailles, Cilicie, Paris i993; SNG LEVANTE - Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Switzerland
[. Levante-Ci)icia, Beme 1986.
* On the typology of Iranian horseman depictions on coins cf. J. BODZEK, 714 22471B477/7C4 AOA7/Z4Z4714.
w obrane /oł. 330-33? a.C.), Kraków 2011, p. 241ff.
^ Heidetberger Munzhandlung Herbert Grtin, Auction 54, 16.11.2010, no. 107; cf. BODZEK, 714
Z47R47777C4 NOM/ZAT4714..., PI. 12, 17.
" The cataloguer established which side was the obverse and which the reverse. It must therefore be stressed
that the coin is known to me exclusively from photographs and that 1 will only be able to guarantee which side is
which if permitted to directly examine the item.