| Type 1.1 | |
| Denomination: | AR Stater |
| Obverse: | Youthful nude rider, holding reins in right hand and whip in left, dismounting from horse rearing to left; dotted border. |
| Reverse: | Forepart of goat kneeling to left; above goat, KEΛ; all within circular incuse. |
| References: | SNG Levante, 17 = Baldwin’s Auctions Ltd, Auction 37 (4 May 2003), Lot 699 (acsearch.info URL); Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auction 169 (12 October 2008), Lot 133 (acsearch.info URL) |
| Die links: | Type 1.2 (obverse) |
| Credit: | Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung (see the references above) |
| Remark: | Both cited specimens were struck from the same obverse and reverse dies. The obverse die is shared with Type 1.2. |
| Type 1.2 | |
| Denomination: | AR Stater |
| Obverse: | Youthful nude rider, holding reins in right hand and whip in left, dismounting from horse rearing to left; dotted border. | |
| Reverse: | Forepart of goat kneeling to left; to the right of the goat, KEΛEN; above goat, Corinthian helmet to left; all within circular incuse. | |
| References: | SNG France 2, 43 = SNG Levante, 16; Leu Numismatik AG, Web Auction 25 (11 March 2023), Lot 910 (acsearch.info URL) | |
| Die links: | Type 1.1 (obverse) | |
| Credit: | Leu Numismatik AG (see the references above) | |
| Remarks: | (1) | Both cited specimens were struck from the same obverse die, which is shared with Type 1.1. |
| (2) | Both SNG Levante and SNG France 2 cite a coin published in Newell 1914 (pp. 11–12, no. 60, pl. II.6) and Kraay 1976 (p. 279, no. 1008, pl. 58). However, this coin is clearly of a different type, probably Type 1.3 below, because it has a dotted border on the reverse and there is insufficient space either to the right of or above the goat for the legend. | |
| Type 1.3 | |
| Denomination: | AR Stater |
| Obverse: | Youthful rider, nude except for flying chlamys, holding reins in right hand and whip in left, dismounting from horse rearing to left; dotted border. | |
| Reverse: | Forepart of goat kneeling to left; dotted border; all within circular incuse. | |
| Variants: | a. | obv.: in exergue, KEΛEN |
| b. | obv.: anepigraphic (KEΛEN erased from the die in exergue) | |
| References: | a. | Nomos AG, Auction 21 (21 November 2020), Lot 221 (acsearch.info URL) |
| b. | Coll. P. Veselý, KEL-AR-05 and KEL-AR-16; Coll. American Numismatic Society, Identifier 1944.100.53201 | |
| Credits (see the references above): | ||
| a. | Nomos AG | |
| b. | P. Veselý (KEL-AR-05) | |
| Remarks: | (1) |
The depiction of the rider wearing a chlamys is unique to this coin type; no other Kelenderis coin type shows this garment. The two “wings” of the chlamys flying behind the rider’s back emphasise the dynamism of the scene. A chlamys with two such “wings” is also depicted on some Thessalian coins of the 5th century BC (see Mack 2025, forthcoming) and in the equestrian scene on an amphora probably originating from Kamiros on Rhodes, c. 525–500 BC (The British Museum, 1867,0506.44); the rider on the amphora also wears a short chiton. Some horsemen on the Parthenon frieze also wear only a chlamys and are otherwise nude; others wear only a chiton or both garments, sometimes together with a cuirass. The cloaks on the frieze, however, are not divided into two “wings”. |
| (2) | In variant 1.3b, traces of the city ethnic are still visible in the exergue. For details, see the die analysis for Kelenderis, Staters – Group 1. | |
16 July 2021 – 24 August 2026