Analyzed coins Die analysis Visual catalogue
Analyzed coins
Coin catalogue section: | Holmoi, Group 1 |
Coin corpus datasets: | Holmoi, Group 1 |
The number of analyzed coins recorded in the Corpus as of 4 May 2025 is presented in Table 1.
Type | Count |
---|---|
1.1a | 1 |
1.1b | 7 |
1.2 | 1 |
Total | 9 |
Table 1: Number of analyzed coins
Die analysis
An overview of dies used for known staters of Group 1 is given in Table 2. All the specimens of Type 1 listed here were struck with the same obverse die O1, as evidenced by various common details. The reverse die R1 used for variant 1.1a was apparently soon supplemented with the city ethnic and the thus modified die R1b was subsequently used for all specimens of variant 1.1b. Variant 1.1a thus preceded variant 1.1b.1 The obverse die O2 of Type 1.2 is artistically on a higher level than O1, and is therefore a younger type.
Type | Corpus no. | Specimen | Coin dies | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Obverse | Reverse | |||
1.1a | 1 | 1 | O1 | R1 |
1.1b | 2 | 1 | O1 | R1b |
3 | 2 | O1 | R1b | |
4 | 3 | O1 | R1b | |
5 | 4 | O1 | R1b | |
6 | 5 | O1 | R1b | |
7 | 6 | O1 | R1b | |
8 | 7 | O1 | R1b | |
1.2 | 9 | 1 | O2 | R2 |
Table 2: Overview of dies used for individual coins
Only two pairs of dies O1/R1(b) and O2/R2 indicate that the total production of early staters of Group 1 was very limited.
Visual catalogue
Photo credits can be found in Coin corpus, Holmoi, Group 1.
Type 1.1a, Specimen 1 (Corpus no. 1). Obverse and reverse dies O1/R1.
Type 1.1b, Specimen 1 (Corpus no. 2). Obverse and reverse dies O1/R1b.
Type 1.1b, Specimen 2 (Corpus no. 3). Obverse and reverse dies O1/R1b.
Type 1.1b, Specimen 3 (Corpus no. 4). Obverse and reverse dies O1/R1b.
Type 1.1b, Specimen 4 (Corpus no. 5). Obverse and reverse dies O1/R1b.
Type 1.1b, Specimen 5 (Corpus no. 6). Obverse and reverse dies O1/R1b.
Type 1.1b, Specimen 6 (Corpus no. 7). Obverse and reverse dies O1/R1b.
Type 1.1b, Specimen 7 (Corpus no. 8). Obverse and reverse dies O1/R1b.
Type 1.2, Specimen 1 (Corpus no. 9). Obverse and reverse dies O2/R2.
1 The opposite view is held by Tahberer 2024, p. 84, who believes that these coins were struck from multiple reverse dies and the anepigraphic variant was struck last, when this coin type was already well known and therefore it was possible to omit the city ethnic.
4 May 2025