COIN HOARDS VOLUME IX Greek Hoards EDITED BY ANDREW MEADOWS & UTE WARTENBERG ROYAL NUMISMATIC SOCIETY SPECIAL PUBLICATION No. 35 PRINTED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE INTERNATIONAL NUMISMATIC COMMISSION LONDON 2002ASIA MINOR AND LEVANT 585 Unknown findspot, c. 1977 Burial: Late 1* cent. BC Contents: 10 AR Parthia drs. Gotarzes I: 1 Phraates III: 1 Orodes II: 8 Disposition: Afyon Archaeological Museum. (inv. nos. 4193-4202) R. Ashton, D. Sellwood and M. Oylimez, CH 9, below, p. 291 586 Beth Likiah, near Jerusalem, 1982 CH 8.550 Burial: 10 BC to AD 20 Contents: 332 AR Disposition: In commerce For futher discussion and a full listing see: R.HJ. Ashton with A-P.C, Weiss, "The Post- Plinthophoric Silver Drachms of Rhodes’, NC (1997),. pp. 1-40, at 24-5. Cf I. Warren, “Towards a Resolution of the Achaian League Silver Coinage Controversy’, in M. Price et al (edd.), Essays in Honour of Robert Carson and Kenneth Jenkins, 1993, p. 94. 587 Unknown findspot, before 1985 Burial: Late 1" cent, BC/early 1" AD Contents: 44 AR Lycian League 1 dr., 39 hemidrs., 4 1/4 drs. ‘Troxell 84: 1 Troxell 85: 3 Troxell 87: 2 Troxell 91: 1 Troxell 100: 1 Troxell 102: 1 Troxell 103: 1 Troxell 104: 2 Troxell 105(2): 1 ‘Troxell 108: Troxell 110: Troxell 116 Troxell 125: Troxell 126: ‘Troxell 133: Troxell 139: Troxell 142: Troxell 147: Troxell 151: Troxell 153: Troxell 154: Troxell 155: Troxell 156: Disposition: Fethiye Archaeological Museum (inv. nos. 4358-4401) (There is no documentary evidence that these coins came from a single hoard, but they were acquired by the museum from the same vendor at the same time, have similar patina, and are all fairly worn.) 2 588 589 590 591 592 Vardenut, Armenia, 1929 Burial: Late 1* cent. BC/early 1° AD Contents: 13 AB Orodes Il: 12 Phraates IV: 1 Disposition: Yerevan (inv. nos. 4795, 4797-2, 4803-8) AM. Akpoyan, ‘A Hoard of Paithian coins from » VDI 160 (1982), pp. 84-9. HCFA, pp Bab, Syria, 1951 CHATS Burial: AD 12 Contents: 76 AR Antioch: Philip 11 imit. tetradrs.: 26 Antony and Cleopatra tetradrs.: 6 Roman provincial tetradrs.: 43 Seleuceia: Roman provincial tetradr.: 1 Disposition: Dispersed H. Seyrig, Trésors du Levant Anciens et Noweaux (Paris, 1973), pp. 109-10, no. 39. Note: the entry for this hoard at CH 1.75 confuses it with the Bab 1934 hoard (IGCH 1534). Tovuz, 1955 Burial: 40s AD Contents: 11 AR Tigranes I Artaxata: 6 drs. (to yr. 37) Orodes I Susa: 1 dr. Rome: 3 den. (RRC 413/1, 489/1, 544/28) Vardanes I Ecbatana 1 dr. Disposition: Yerevan (inv. nos. 17446, 17431/1-1, 17869) HCFA, pp. 139-40, pl. 21. Akura, Lebanon, 1994 Burial: AD 70 Contents: 41 AR Parthian tetradrs. Artabanus IL: 6 Vardanes I: 8 Gotarzes II: 6 Volagases I: 9 Disposition: Private collection 29, 12 dispersed Z, Sawaya, CH 9, below, p. 292. Rhodes?, 1975 CH 2.136 Burial: 85 AD Contents: 275+ AE Rhodes Disposition: dispersed RHI. Ashton with A-P.C. Weiss, ‘The Post- Plinthophoric Silver Drachms of Rhodes’, NC 137 (1997), pp. 1-40, pl. 16 D publish a coin from this hoard, 63THE AKURA HOARD OF PARTHIAN COINS, 1994 (CH 9. 591) Z. SAWAYA During 1994 a hoard of Parthian tetradrachms was discovered by treasure-hunters among tuins at Akura, fifty kilometres east of Byblos in Lebanon. I was able briefly to record the details of the following twenty-nine coins from the find which appeared on the market in Beirut. No container was reported as having been found with the coins, but the appearance of cracks apparently caused by frost on most of them leaves little doubt that the coins form a group. Artabanos II (AD 10/11 - ¢. 38)" Obv. Bust of king |. Rev. King seated r. 1 Gorpiaios, year 323 (= AD 10/11). Cf. BMC Artabanus 111 2-4 Date off flan and month illegible Oby. Bust of king 1. Rev. King seated |. 5 Gorpiaios, yr. 334 (= AD 22/3). Cf. BMC Artabanus 112 Oby. Bust of king facing. Rev. King on horseback L. 6 Yr. 338 (= AD 26/7). Cf. BMC Artabanus 120 Vardanes I (c. AD 39 ~c. 45) Oby. Bust of king |. Rev. King seated r. 7 Gorpiaios, yr. 353 (= AD 41/2) 8 Apellaios, yr. 355 (= AD 43/4) 9 Month off flan, yr. 355 (= AD 43/4) 10-14 Month off flan, yr. 356 (= AD 44/5) Gotarzes II (AD 43/4 — 50/1) Obv. Bust of king |. Rev. King seated r. 15-16 Year 357 (= AD 45/6) 17 Year 362 (= AD 50/1) 18-20 Date illegible Volagases I (AD 50/1 ~ 76/7) (Oby. Bust of king facing, looking I. Rev. King seated | 21 Month off flan, year 363 (= AD 51/2) Obv. Bust of king 1. Rev. King seated |. 22 Month off flan, year 367 (= AD 55/6) 23-5 Month off flan, year 368 (= AD 56/7) 26 Month off flan, year 374 (= AD 62/3) 27 Gorpiaios, year 377 (= AD 56/6) 28 -Xandikos, yr. illegible 29 Date illegible The chronology and identification of the Parthian kings adopted here follows that of G. Le Rider, Suse sous les séleucides et les parthes (Paris, 1966), pp. 61 and 419 n. 3 292