Overview
Hoard data are drawn from the CoinHoards project, the volumes Coin Hoards I–X, published by the Royal Numismatic Society and the American Numismatic Society, and Vismara 1999. All the coins listed are silver.
| Hoard | Burial (c.) | Holmoi | Kelenderis | Nagidos | Pseudo-Kelenderis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IGCH 1255 | 400 BC | c. 1000 staters | |||
| Lycia(?) 1973(?) / Franke | 400 BC (?) | 1 stater | 1 stater | ||
| IGCH 1258 | 390–380 BC | 35 staters | |||
| IGCH 1820 | 390–380 BC | 3 staters | |||
| CH VI, 11 | 380 BC | 3+ staters | 3+ staters | 12+ staters | |
| CH VIII, 91 = CH IX, 390 | 380 BC | 3 staters | 130 staters | ||
| CH VIII, 93 = CH IX, 389 | 380 BC | 25 staters | 4 staters | ||
| CH IX, 393 | 380 BC | 4 staters | 3 staters | ||
| CH IX, 394 | 380 BC | 6 staters | 5 staters | ||
| IGCH 1259 | 380 BC | 2 staters | |||
| IGCH 1830 | 380 BC | 2 coins | |||
| IGCH 1261 | 375 BC | 3+ staters | |||
| CH VIII, 100 | 370 BC | 24 coins | 3 coins | ||
| IGCH 1263 = CH VIII, 99 & CH IX, 401 |
370 BC | 67 fractions | 3 fractions | ||
| IGCH 1264 | 370–360 BC | 1+ fraction | |||
| CH I, 32 | 350 BC | 38 staters | |||
| CH VIII, 106 | 350 BC | 37 staters | |||
| IGCH 1265 | 350 BC | 15+ staters | |||
| CH VIII, 155 | 335 BC | 3 fractions | |||
| CH VIII, 165 | 330 BC | 1 coin | |||
| IGCH 1792 | 330–311 BC | 1 fraction | |||
| CH VIII, 173 | 325 BC | 18 fractions | 3 fractions | ||
| CH VIII, 210 | 310 BC | 2+ fractions | 2+ fractions | ||
| IGCH 1757 | 310–300 BC | 1 stater | |||
| IGCH 1822 | 180–170 BC | 1 stater |
Hoards
| IGCH 1255 (“Celenderis hoard”) | ||
| Findspot: probably Cilicia | ||
| Burial: c. 400 BC | Discovery: 1957 | Number of coins: 1292+ |
| Attica: | Athens | 200 tetradrachms |
| Pamphylia: | Side | 15+ staters |
| Cilicia: | Issos (?) | 1 stater |
| Kelenderis | c. 1000 staters | |
| Mallos | 1 stater | |
| Soloi | 40+ staters | |
| Tarsos | 20 (?) staters | |
| Cyprus: | Citium | 10+ staters |
| Lapethos | 3 staters | |
| Paphos | 1 stater | |
| Salamis | 1 stater | |
| The estimated figures are taken from Kraay 1962, p. 12. The coin assigned here to Issos is classified as an uncertain issue in Kraay 1962. | ||
| IGCH 1258 | ||
| Findspot: Cilicia, Bereket (a village in the Gülnar district of Mersin Province, Turkey, situated in mountainous terrain approximately 13 km west of Gülnar and 24 km north of Aydıncık, the ancient Kelenderis, as the crow flies) | ||
| Burial: c. 390–380 BC | Discovery: 1958 | Number of coins: 35 |
| Cilicia: | Kelenderis | 35 staters |
| The hoard is documented in Taner 1966. | ||
| IGCH 1259 | ||
| Findspot: Cilicia (Turkey) | ||
| Burial: c. 380 BC | Discovery: before 1914 | Number of coins: 87+ |
| Sicily: | Syracuse | 1 tetradrachm |
| Attica: | Athens | 35 tetradrachms |
| Eastern (?) imitations | 3 tetradrachms | |
| Paphlagonia: | Sinope | 3 siglos |
| Ionia: | Miletos | 4 diobols |
| Samos | 1 tetradrachm | |
| Lycia: | Tlos | 1 stater |
| Pamphylia: | Aspendos | 4 staters |
| Side | 1 stater | |
| Cilicia: | Issos | 2 staters |
| Kelenderis | 2 staters | |
| Mallos | 6 staters | |
| Soli | 14 staters | |
| Cyprus: | Citium | 1 stater, 1 third stater |
| Salamis | 2 staters | |
| Phoenicia: | Arados | 3 staters |
| Tyre | 2 staters | |
| Uncertain | 1 stater | |
| The hoard is documented in Newell 1914. According to the CoinHoards project, the following coins listed by Newell are excluded from the hoard: 5 drachms of Byzantion, 1 drachm of Kalchedon and 48 Persian sigloi. | ||
| IGCH 1261 | ||
| Findspot: Anatolia, Turkey | ||
| Burial: c. 375 BC | Discovery: 1947 | Number of coins: 16+ |
| Pamphylia: | Side | 3+ staters |
| Cilicia: | Issos | 3+ staters |
| Kelenderis | 3+ staters | |
| Mallos | 2+ staters | |
| Soloi | 1+ stater | |
| Tarsos | 2+ staters | |
| Cyprus: | Lapethos | 2+ staters |
| IGCH 1263 = CH VIII, 99 & CH IX, 401 (“Rouvier hoard”) | ||
| Findspot: Anatolia, Turkey | ||
| Burial: c. 370 BC | Discovery: 1900 | Number of coins: 145+ |
| Pamphylia: | Side | 7 AR fractions |
| Cilicia: | Kelenderis | 67 AR fractions |
| Nagidos | 2 AR fractions | |
| Soloi | 24 AR fractions | |
| Tarsos | 7 AR fractions | |
| Cyprus: | Amathos | 1 stater |
| Citium | 13 AR fractions | |
| Salamis | 13 AR fractions | |
| Phoenicia: | Arados | 1+ AR coin |
| Sidon | 1+ AR coin | |
| Uncertain: | 7 AR fractions | |
| Destrooper-Georgiades 1988 published two distinct hoards of silver fractions, designated the Rouvier hoard and the Delepierre hoard. IGCH 1263 includes the Rouvier hoard (CH VIII, 99), which is in the collection of the American Numismatic Society, and a small part of the Delepierre hoard (CH IX, 401), which is in the collection of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. However, the Delepierre hoard is catalogued as CH VIII, 100. | ||
| The mints of Cilicia Trachea are represented by Kelenderis and Nagidos. The coin counts for these two mints are taken from Destrooper-Georgiades 1988 and CH VIII, 99, because they correspond to the list of coins in the ANS collection given in IGCH 1263. However, of the 73 coins attributed to Kelenderis, 6 have been placed here under uncertain issues because they apparently originated at another mint (1 obol of the type forepart of Pegasus l. / rough incuse square and 5 obols of the type gorgoneion / rough incuse square). Data on the other mints and the total number of coins are taken from IGCH 1263. | ||
| The year of discovery is taken from Destrooper-Georgiades 1988, p. 21, but applies only to the Rouvier hoard. The Delepierre hoard was bought in 1944–5 (ibid., p. 21), so it must have been discovered no later than 1944. | ||
| IGCH 1264 | ||
| Findspot: Cilicia, Karataş (a municipality and district of Adana Province, Turkey) | ||
| Burial: c. 370–360 BC | Discovery: 1966–7 | Number of coins: 300+ |
| Cilicia: | Kelenderis | 1+ AR fraction |
| Mallos | 1+ AR fraction | |
| uncertain | 1+ AR fraction | |
| Uncertain: | 297 AR coins | |
| IGCH 1265 | ||
| Findspot: Pamphylia, Antalya (Turkey) | ||
| Burial: c. 350 BC | Discovery: before 1947 | Number of coins: 15+ |
| Cilicia: | Nagidos | 15+ staters |
| IGCH 1757 | ||
| Findspot: Mesopotamia or Babylonia | ||
| Burial: c. 310–300 BC | Discovery: 1957 | Number of coins: 43+ |
| Attica: | Athens | 37 tetradrachms |
| Cilicia: | Kelenderis | 1 stater |
| Cyprus: | Paphos | 1 stater |
| Phoenicia: | Sidon | 1 1/16 shekel |
| Tyre | 1 shekel | |
| Babylonia: | Babylon | 1 stater |
| Kyrenaika: | Kyrene | 1 tetradrachm |
| IGCH 1792 | ||
| Findspot: Susiana, Susa (Iran) | ||
| Burial: c. 330–311 BC | Discovery: 1931–2 | Number of coins: 111+ |
| Macedonian Kingdom: | Alexander III | 2 obols, 1 hemiobol, 1 uncertain AR denomination |
| Thrace: | Byzantion | 1 trihemiobol |
| Mysia: | Kyzikos | 6+ hemiobols |
| Ionia: | Miletos | 1 hemidrachm, 13+ diobols, 1 trihemiobol |
| Islands off Ionia: | Samos | 1 tetrobol |
| Pamphylia: | Aspendos | 1 obol |
| Cilicia: | Nagidos | 1 obol |
| Phoenicia: | Arados | 1 obol |
| Sidon | 33 1/16 shekels, 2–3 1/32 shekels | |
| Babylonia: | Babylon | 2 hemidrachms |
| Achaemenid Empire: | Sardis | 1 siglos, 1 uncertain AR coin |
| Uncertain: | 42+ AR coins | |
| IGCH 1820 | ||
| Findspot: Baktria, Balkh (a municipality in the Balkh Province, Afghanistan) | ||
| Burial: c. 390–380 BC | Discovery: 1966 | Number of coins: 170+ |
| Macedon: | Akanthos | 1 tetradrachm |
| Dikaia | 1 stater | |
| Lete | 1 stater | |
| Thraco-Macedonian Tribes: | Derrones | 2 staters |
| Attica: | Athens | 150+ tetradrachms, 1 drachm |
| Islands off Attica: | Aigina | 1 stater |
| Caria: | Knidos | 1 drachm |
| Lycia: | Phaselis | 1 stater |
| Cilicia: | Kelenderis | 3 staters |
| Soloi | 1 stater | |
| Tarsos | 1 stater | |
| uncertain | 1 third stater | |
| Cyprus: | Citium | 1 stater |
| Paphos | 2 staters | |
| Salamis | 1 stater | |
| Phoenicia: | Tyre | 1 shekel |
| IGCH 1822 | ||
| Findspot: Sogdiana, Oxus River (Takhti-Kubad, at the junction of the modern Vaksh and Piandzh rivers, Shaartuz raion, Tadzhikistan) | ||
| Burial: c. 180–170 BC | Discovery: 1877 | Number of coins: c. 1847 |
| Macedon: | Akanthos | 3 tetradrachms |
| Macedonian Kingdom: | Philip II | 1 tetradrachm |
| Alexander III | 100 tetradrachms, 100 drachms | |
| Thracian Kingdom: | Lysimachos | 1 tetradrachm |
| Thrace: | Byzantion | 2 drachms |
| Attica: | Athens | 8+ tetradrachms, 1 didrachm, 1 drachm |
| Caria: | Satrap Pixodaros | 1 AV hekte |
| Pamphylia: | Aspendos | 6+ staters |
| Cilicia: | Kelenderis | 1 stater |
| Tarsos | 8 staters | |
| Seleukid Empire: | Seleukos I | 2 AV double darics, 3 staters, 14 tetradrachms, 8 drachms, 2 hemidrachms, 2 obols |
| Antiochos I | 8+ AV staters, 13 tetradrachms, 13 drachms, 2 hemidrachms | |
| Antiochos II | 5 AV staters, 2 tetradrachms, 2 drachms | |
| uncertain | 3 AE coins | |
| Phoenicia: | Sidon | 2 double shekels |
| Achaemenid Empire: | Asia Minor | 2 tetradrachms |
| Babylon | 6 AV double darics | |
| Sardis | 8 AV darics, 6 AR siglos | |
| Parthia: | Satrap Andragoras | 3 AV staters, 2 tetradrachms |
| Satrap Vahshuvar | 1 AV distater, 2 AV staters | |
| Bactrian Kingdom: | Diodotos I | 4 AV staters, 4 tetradrachms, 5 drachms, 6 AE coins |
| Euthydemos I | 2 AV staters, 4 tetradrachms, 1 obol, 5+ AE coins | |
| Pantaleon | 1 AE coin | |
| Agathokles | 1 drachm, 3 AE coins, 3 nickel coins | |
| Antimachos I | 4 tetradrachms | |
| uncertain | 4 AE coins | |
| Other issues: | 1458 AV coins | |
| The composition and number of coins in this hoard are uncertain. The data above are taken from the CoinHoards project, except for the date of discovery, which is taken from Cunningham 1881, p. 151. For Cunningham’s description of this hoard, see also Cunningham 1883a and 1883b. | ||
| IGCH 1830 | ||
| Findspot: Bactria, Kabul (Afghanistan) | ||
| Burial: c. 380 BC | Discovery: 1933 | Number of coins: 115+ |
| Macedon: | Akanthos | 2 tetradrachms |
| Islands off Thrace: | Thasos | 1 stater |
| Islands off Epeiros: | Korkyra | 1 stater |
| Attica: | Athens | 34 tetradrachms |
| Islands off Attica: | Aigina | 4 coins |
| Cyclades: | Melos | 1 coin |
| Mysia: | Lampsakos | 1 coin |
| Ionia: | Erythrai | 1 coin |
| Islands off Ionia: | Chios | 1 coin |
| Samos | 2 coins | |
| Caria: | Knidos | 1 coin |
| Lycia: | uncertain | 1 coin |
| Pamphylia: | Aspendos | 2 coins |
| Side | 1 coin | |
| Cilicia: | Kelenderis | 2 coins |
| Mallos | 1 coin | |
| Soloi | 1 coin | |
| Tarsos | 1 coin | |
| Cyprus: | Citium | 2 coins |
| Paphos | 3 coins | |
| Salamis | 1 coin | |
| Achaemenid Empire: | Sardis | 8 coins |
| Uncertain: | 43 coins | |
| CH I, 32 | ||
| Findspot: Cilicia, Yurlenik (a place near the city of Mersin, Turkey) | ||
| Burial: c. 350 BC (?) | Discovery: 1940 | Number of coins: 38 |
| Cilicia: | Nagidos | 38 staters |
| CH VI, 11 | ||
| Findspot: Cilicia (Turkey) | ||
| Burial: c. 380 BC | Discovery: 1979 | Number of coins: 31+ |
| Paphlagonia: | Sinope | 1 drachm |
| Pamphylia: | Aspendos | 6+ staters, 1+ siglos |
| Cilicia: | Holmoi | 3+ staters |
| Issos | 1+ stater | |
| Kelenderis | 3+ staters | |
| Mallos | 1+ stater | |
| Nagidos | 12+ staters | |
| uncertain | 1+ stater, 2 sigloi | |
| All the coins bear a countermark of a bull facing right; many also bear a countermark of an eagle facing right and a trident, or have punchmarks. | ||
| CH VIII, 91 = CH IX, 390 | ||
| Findspot: Southern Cilicia (Turkey) | ||
| Burial: c. 385–380 BC | Discovery: ? | Number of coins: 435+ AR coins |
| Attica: | Athens | 127 tetradrachms |
| Pamphylia: | Aspendos / Selge | 19 staters |
| Side | 40 staters | |
| Cilicia: | Issos | 19 staters |
| Kelenderis | 3 staters | |
| Mallos | 26 staters | |
| Myriandros | 1 stater | |
| Nagidos | 130 staters | |
| Soloi | 8 staters | |
| Tarsos | 27 staters | |
| uncertain | 9 staters | |
| Cyprus: | Citium (Baalmelek II) | 8 staters |
| Paphos (Timocharis) | 1 stater | |
| Salamis (Evagoras I) | 2 staters | |
| CH IX provides an updated list of coins in this hoard based on Levante 1994. This list contains 420 coins, but CH IX gives a total of 435+ coins. | ||
| CH VIII, 93 = CH IX, 389 | ||
| Findspot: Cilicia (Turkey) | ||
| Burial: c. 380 BC | Discovery: 1987 | Number of coins: 32 |
| Cilicia: | Kelenderis | 25 staters |
| Mallos | 2 staters | |
| Nagidos | 4 staters | |
| Soloi | 1 stater | |
| CH VIII lists 20 coins, although 32 coins are illustrated (Plates V–VII). CH IX lists the correct number of coins. | ||
| CH IX, 393 | ||
| Findspot: unknown | ||
| Burial: c. 380 BC | Discovery: 1983 | Number of coins: ‘hundreds’ of AR coins |
| Lycia: | Phaselis (?) | 1 stater |
| Cilicia: | Issos | 10 staters |
| Kelenderis | 4 staters | |
| Mallos | 15 staters | |
| Nagidos | 3 staters | |
| Soloi | 4 staters | |
| Tarsos | 18 staters | |
| Cyprus: | Citium | 5 staters |
| Salamis | 2 staters | |
| uncertain (lion/bull) | 2 staters | |
| CH IX, 394 | ||
| Findspot: unknown | ||
| Burial: c. 380 BC | Discovery: c. 1988/9 | Number of coins: 112+ |
| Pamphylia: | Side | 4 staters |
| Cilicia: | Issos | 20 staters |
| Kelenderis | 6 staters | |
| Mallos | 18 staters | |
| Nagidos | 5 staters | |
| Soloi | 16 staters | |
| Tarsos | 12 staters | |
| Cyprus: | Salamis | 31 staters |
| CH VIII, 100 (“Delepierre hoard”) | ||
| Findspot: Cilicia (Turkey) | ||
| Burial: c. 370 BC | Discovery: 1944 or earlier | Number of coins: 52 AR coins |
| Pamphylia: | Side | 7 |
| Pisidia: | Selge | 1 |
| Cilicia: | Kelenderis | 24 |
| Nagidos | 3 | |
| Soloi | 11 | |
| Cyprus: | Citium | 2 |
| Lapethos | 1 | |
| Salamis | 2 | |
| Phoenicia: | uncertain | 1 |
| This hoard was described by Destrooper-Georgiades 1988 and designated the Delepierre hoard. It is now in the collection of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. See also IGCH 1263 = CH VIII, 99 & CH IX, 401. | ||
| This hoard was bought in 1944–5 (Destrooper-Georgiades 1988, p. 21), so it was discovered in 1944 at the latest. | ||
| CH VIII, 106 | ||
| Findspot: unknown | ||
| Burial: c. 350 BC | Discovery: ? | Number of coins: 37 |
| Cilicia: | Nagidos | 37 staters |
| CH VIII, 155 | ||
| Findspot: Asia Minor | ||
| Burial: c. 335 BC | Discovery: 1990 | Number of coins: 53+ |
| Lesbos: | Mytilene | 1 hemiobol |
| Lycia: | uncertain | 1 obol |
| Pamphylia: | Side | 16+ obols |
| Pisidia: | Selge | 18+ obols |
| Cilicia: | Nagidos | 3 obols |
| Tarsos | 12 obols | |
| uncertain | 2 obols | |
| CH VIII, 165 | ||
| Findspot: Cilicia (Turkey) | ||
| Burial: c. 330 BC | Discovery: before 1985 | Number of coins: 41 AR coins |
| Cilicia: | Issos | 8 |
| Kelenderis | 1 | |
| Mallos | 22 | |
| Soloi | 3 | |
| uncertain | 3 | |
| Cyprus: | Citium | 3 |
| Salamis | 1 | |
| CH VIII, 173 | ||
| Findspot: Cilicia (Turkey) | ||
| Burial: c. 325 BC | Discovery: before 1944 | Number of coins: 42 AR coins |
| Macedonian Kingdom: | Alexander III, Sidon | 1 obol (SNG Delep., 1057) |
| Cilicia: | Kelenderis | 16 obols (SNG Delep., 2836–44, 2846–8, 2851–4), 2 hemiobols (SNG Delep., 2845, 2849) |
| Nagidos | 2 obols (SNG Delep., 2857–8), 1 hemiobol (SNG Delep., 2859) |
|
| Soloi | 5 obols (SNG Delep., 2861, 2863–9), 3 hemiobols (SNG Delep., 2870–2) |
|
| uncertain | 9 obols (SNG Delep., 2890–8) | |
| Cyprus: | uncertain | 3 obols (SNG Delep., 2905, 2919, 2921) |
| CH VIII, 210 | ||
| Findspot: Cilicia (Turkey) | ||
| Burial: c. 310 BC | Discovery: 1991 | Number of coins: 109+ |
| Caria: | Rhodes | 1 AR fraction |
| Pisidia: | Selge | 1+ AR fraction |
| Cilicia: | Kelenderis | 2+ AR fractions |
| Nagidos | 2+ AR fractions | |
| Tarsos | 79+ AR fractions | |
| Uncertain: | 24+ | |
| The number of coins assigned to the mints listed above is 85, but CH VIII gives a total of 109+. The difference is shown here in the final row, labelled ‘Uncertain’. | ||
| Lycia(?) 1973(?) / Franke | ||
| Findspot: perhaps Lycia (Turkey) | ||
| Burial: c. 400 BC (?) | Discovery: 1973 (?) | Number of coins: 39 |
| Paphlagonia: | Sinope | 1 stater |
| Lycia: | various types from the pre-dynastic and dynastic periods | 36 staters |
| Cilicia: | Kelenderis | 1 stater |
| Pseudo-Kelenderis | 1 stater | |
| The “Lycia(?) 1973(?)” hoard described by Vismara 1999, pp. 157–170, is a mixture of material from several hoards (Spier 2000, p. 371). Only the portion for which Robert P. Franke provided information to Novella Vismara is listed above. Vismara classifies the Pseudo-Kelenderis coin under Kelenderis. However, it is far from certain that the coins from the Kelenderis and Pseudo-Kelenderis mints actually belong to the same hoard as the Lycian coins from the pre-dynastic and dynastic periods. | ||
| I have provisionally dated the burial on the basis of the Kelenderis stater (Type 2.11a–b). | ||
14 August 2023 – 25 September 2026