Forepart of Pegasus, forepart of goat Horse left, goat left Horse right, goat left Horse right, goat right
Forepart of Pegasus, forepart of goat
4.1
| Type 4.1 | |
| Denomination: | AR Third Stater |
Detail
| Obverse: | Forepart of Pegasus left; dotted border. |
| Reverse: | Forepart of goat kneeling to left within circular incuse. |
| References: | Leu Numismatik, Web Auction 9 (7 September 2019), Lot 422 (acsearch.info URL) |
| Connection: | Type 5.1 (obols with the same design) |
| Credit: | Leu Numismatik (see the reference above) |
| Remark: | The attribution to Kelenderis is based on the use of a forepart of Pegasus on later small denominations of Kelenderis and on the analogous reverse design of Group 1 staters. |
Horse left, goat left
4.2
| Type 4.2 | |
| Denomination: | AR Third Stater |
Detail
| Obverse: | Youthful nude rider, holding reins in right hand and whip in left, dismounting from horse rearing to left on dotted exergual line; dotted border. |
| Reverse: | Male goat kneeling to left on a double exergual line consisting of one solid and one dotted line, head turned back to right; above goat, astragalos; all within circular incuse. |
| References: | SNG France 2, 59; Imhoof-Blumer 1890, p. 182 (706), 552; several specimens on the market, e.g. Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auction 229 (10 March 2015), Lot 1391 (acsearch.info URL) |
| Connection: | Type 2.2 (staters with the same design) |
| Credit: | Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung (see the reference above) |
4.3
| Type 4.3 | |
| Denomination: | AR Third Stater |
Detail
| Obverse: | Youthful nude rider, holding reins in right hand and whip in left, dismounting from horse rearing to left; before horse, round shield; in exergue, dolphin left; dotted border. | |
| Reverse: | Male goat kneeling to left on solid exergual line, head turned back to right; above goat, boxed form of letter heta; all within circular incuse. | |
| References: | BMC 21, p. 53, 12 = The British Museum (London), museum number 1893,1004.20; SNG France 2, 60 | |
| Connection: | Types 2.5 (staters – dolphin, round shield and boxed form of heta) and 5.5 (obols – round shield and boxed form of heta) | |
| Credit: | The Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Gallica, Identifier: ark:/12148/btv1b8473336k | |
| Remarks: | (1) |
BMC 21 describes the object in front of the horse as a pellet within a circle, but an accompanying footnote allows that it may be a round shield. SNG France 2 does not identify the object. Herodotus (The Histories, 7.91) mentions the round shields of the Cilicians: The Cilicians furnished a hundred ships. They also wore on their heads their native helmets, carried bucklers of raw oxhide for shields, and were clad in woollen tunics; each had two javelins and a sword very close in style to the knives of Egypt. Small round equestrian shields carried by dismounting riders can be seen on nomoi of Tarentum: Vlasto, 297–312 (c. 430–380 BC), 389–395 (c. 380–345 BC), 428–442 and 497 (c. 380–345 BC), 698–703 (c. 302–231 BC). |
| (2) | The dolphin is a symbol of Poseidon—a natural choice for a port city like Kelenderis. Its placement beneath the horse probably alludes to Poseidon Hippios (Ίππιος, i.e. ‘of Horses’), that is, to Poseidon as the creator of horses and protector of horse racing. | |
| (3) | The symbol on the reverse corresponds to the boxed form of the letter heta (the Greek form of the Phoenician letter heth). See Jeffery 1961, p. 28, and the Table of Letters at the end of the appendix (unnumbered pages). | |
4.4a
4.4b
4.4c
| Type 4.4 | |
| Denomination: | AR Third Stater |
Detail
| Obverse: | Youthful nude rider, holding reins in right hand and whip in left, dismounting from horse rearing to left on dotted or solid exergual line; dotted border. | |
| Reverse: | Male goat kneeling to left on solid or dotted exergual line, head turned back to right; all within circular incuse. | |
| Variants: | a. | rev.: above goat, ivy branch oriented to right |
| b. | rev.: above goat, forked ivy branch oriented to left | |
| c. | rev.: above goat, ivy branch oriented to left | |
| References: | a. | Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 471 (1 July 2020), Lot 80 (acsearch.info URL) |
| b. | Several specimens on the market, e.g. Classical Numismatic Group, Auction 99 (13 May 2015), Lot 310 (acsearch.info URL) | |
| c. | SNG France 2, 61; The British Museum (London), museum number 1922,0425.70; Forrer/Weber 3, 7517 | |
| Connection: | Type 2.3 (staters with a similar design featuring an ivy branch, but with the ethnic in the obverse exergue) | |
| Credit (see the references above): | ||
| a. | Classical Numismatic Group | |
| b. | Classical Numismatic Group | |
| c. | The British Museum | |
4.5, Specimen 1
4.5, Specimen 2
| Type 4.5 | |
| Denomination: | AR Third Stater |
Detail
| Obverse: | Youthful nude rider, holding reins in right hand and whip in left, dismounting from horse rearing to left on dotted exergual line; in exergue, KEΛ (retrograde); dotted border. |
| Reverse: | Male goat kneeling to left on dotted exergual line, head turned back to right; above goat, KEΛ; all within circular incuse. |
| References: | Specimen 1: Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger, Auction 267 (5 May 2010), Lot 338 (acsearch.info URL); Specimen 2: Roma Numismatics Limited, E-Sale 119 (24 April 2024), Lot 791 (acsearch.info URL) |
| Die links: | Type 4.6a (reverse) |
| Credit: | Specimen 1: Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger (see the reference above); Specimen 2: Roma Numismatics Limited (see the reference above) |
| Remark: | The city ethnic on both the obverse and reverse is highly unusual. Photographs of two specimens are presented because both were struck from the same dies, but the obverse ethnic is clearly legible only on Specimen 1, while the reverse legend is visible on Specimen 2. The same reverse die was used for the listed coin of Type 4.6a. Interestingly, this coin and Specimen 2 were struck on flans bearing cut marks indicating that they had been cut from a larger silver flan. |
4.6a
4.6b
4.6c
| Type 4.6 | |
| Denomination: | AR Third Stater |
Detail
| Obverse: | Youthful nude rider, holding reins in right hand and whip in left, dismounting from horse rearing to left on dotted or solid exergual line; dotted border. | |
| Reverse: | Male goat kneeling to left on dotted or solid exergual line, head turned back to right; all within circular incuse. | |
| Variants: | a. | rev.: above goat, KEΛ |
| b. | rev.: above goat, KEΛE and two ivy leaves | |
| c. | rev.: above goat, KEΛEN | |
| References: | a. | Numismatik Naumann, Auction 55 (2 July 2017), Lot 360 (acsearch.info URL) |
| b. | SNG von Aulock, 5634 = The British Museum (London), museum number 1979,0101.967 | |
| c. | SNG von Aulock, 5633 | |
| Die links: | Variant 4.6a — Type 4.5 (reverse) | |
| Connection: | Type 2.6 (staters of a similar style) | |
| Credit (see the references above): | ||
| a. | Numismatik Naumann | |
| b. | The British Museum | |
4.7a
4.7b
| Type 4.7 | |
| Denomination: | AR Third Stater |
Detail
| Obverse: | Youthful nude rider, holding reins in right hand and whip in left, dismounting from horse rearing to left on dotted or solid exergual line. | |
| Reverse: | Forepart of goat kneeling to left on dotted or solid exergual line, head turned back to right; all within circular incuse. | |
| Variants: | a. | obv.: behind forelegs of the horse under the rider’s feet, letter Λ; dotted exergual line; dotted border; rev.: above goat, KEΛEN; dotted exergual line |
| b. | obv.: in front of hind legs of the horse, letter Λ; solid exergual line; rev.: above goat, KEΛ; solid exergual line |
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| References: | a. | Coll. P. Veselý, KEL-AR-18 |
| b. | Coll. P. Veselý, KEL-AR-20 | |
| Credit (see the references above): | ||
| a. | P. Veselý | |
| b. | P. Veselý | |
4.8a
4.8b
4.8c
| Type 4.8 | |
| Denomination: | AR Third Stater |
Detail
| Obverse: | Youthful nude rider, holding reins in right hand and whip in left, dismounting from horse rearing to left on solid exergual line; dotted border. | |
| Reverse: | Forepart of goat kneeling to left on solid or dotted exergual line, head turned back to right; all within circular incuse. | |
| Variants: | a. | obv.: behind forelegs of the horse, letter Π; rev.: above goat, KEΛEN |
| b. | obv.: in front of hind legs of the horse, letter Π; rev.: above goat, KEΛ |
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| c. | obv.: below whip, letter Π; rev.: above goat, KEΛ |
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| References: | a. | SNG France 2, 57 |
| b. | Numismatik Naumann, Auction 92 (2 August 2020), Lot 327 (acsearch.info URL); Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 311 (25 September 2013), Lot 802 (acsearch.info URL) | |
| c. | SNG France 2, 58; Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Auction 136 (10 March 2008), Lot 681 (acsearch.info URL) | |
| Connection: | Types 2.4 (staters, Π behind the horse’s front legs), 2.10 (staters, letter resembling Π behind the horse’s front legs) and 2.11 (staters, Π in front of the horse’s hind legs) | |
| Credit (see the references above): | ||
| a. | The Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Gallica, Identifier: ark:/12148/btv1b84733429 | |
| b. | Numismatik Naumann | |
| c. | Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG | |
Horse right, goat left
4.9a
4.9b
| Type 4.9 | |
| Denomination: | AR Third Stater |
Detail
| Obverse: | Youthful nude rider, holding reins in left hand and whip in right, dismounting from horse rearing to right on solid exergual line; dotted border. | |
| Reverse: | Male goat kneeling to left on dotted exergual line, head turned back to right; all within circular incuse. | |
| Variants: | a. | rev.: above goat, KEΛEN |
| b. | rev.: above goat and on the right, KEΛE–N | |
| References: | a. | Coll. P. Veselý, KEL-AR-17 |
| b. | Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auction 208 (6 October 2012), Lot 1603 (acsearch.info URL) | |
| Credit (see the references above): | ||
| a. | P. Veselý | |
| b. | Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung | |
| Remark: | The cited specimen of variant 4.9b is listed in the auction catalogue as a tetrobol, but its stated weight of 10.71 g corresponds to a stater. It therefore cannot be ruled out that this coin is a variant of Type 3.2. | |
Horse right, goat right
4.10
| Type 4.10 | |
| Denomination: | AR Third Stater |
Detail
| Obverse: | Youthful nude rider, holding reins in left hand and whip in right, dismounting from horse rearing to right on dotted exergual line; dotted border. |
| Reverse: | Male goat kneeling to right on dotted exergual line, head turned back to left; above goat, KEΛEN. |
| References: | Aegean Numismatics (Mentor, Ohio, USA), Fixed Price List (accessed 18 February 2024). |
| Credit: | Aegean Numismatics (see the reference above; the background has been removed from the original image) |
16 July 2021 – 30 August 2026