Project

This website is primarily dedicated to the study of the pre-Hellenistic coinage of Cilicia Trachea (Rough Cilicia). The main objectives of the project are to catalogue coin types and their variants, conduct metrological and die analyses, establish the relative and absolute chronology of the coins, compile information on published coin hoards, and place the coinage within a broader cultural and historical context. Information is added gradually as time permits.

The footer of each page gives its publication date and, where applicable, the date of its most recent update.

Discussion, new information, and reasoned criticism are welcome. I reply to all emails. If you do not receive a response, your message may not have reached me because of a technical problem.

Contact: Petr Veselý, Info@DismountingRider.info

My numismatic publications

Catharine C. Lorber, Arthur Houghton and Petr Veselý (2006). Cappadocian Tetradrachms in the Name of Antiochus VII. The Numismatic Chronicle, Vol. 166: 49–97.

Oliver D. Hoover, Arthur Houghton and Petr Veselý (2008). The Silver Mint of Damascus under Demetrius III and Antiochus XII (97/6 BC–83/2 BC). American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 20: 305–336.

Petr Veselý (2023). Sesedající jezdci na antických řeckých mincích. In Michal Lutovský and Michal Mašek (eds.), Blaženost věků aneb Felicitas saeculi. Prague, NLN – Nakladatelství Lidové noviny: 234–239.

Petr Veselý (2023). The Dismounting Horseman Scene on Cilician Coins. KOINON VI: 20–49.

Jiří Militký, Petr Veselý and Lenka Vacinová (2023). Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Czech Republic, Volume I, Part 7: Seleucid Empire and Imitations, Syria, Phoenicia, Judaea, Mesopotamia, Commagene, Armenia and Arabia. Prague: The National Museum.

Jiří Kmošek and Petr Veselý (2025). Commentary on the XRF Analyses. In Jiří Militký, Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Czech Republic, Volume I, Part 8: Ptolemaic Empire, Egypt and North Africa. Prague: The National Museum.