Overview

Basic classification Coin types Additional symbols City ethnic Lederer’s types mapping

Basic classification

Staters are segmented into three groups, that roughly correspond to the aggregate segmentation according to Lederer 1931:

  • Group 1 (c. 420–380 BC): Lederer I–III (nos. 1–19) and other types and variants,
  • Group 2 (c. 380–360 BC): Lederer IV–VII (nos. 20–33) and other types and variants,
  • Group 3 (c. 360–333 BC): Lederer VIII–X (nos. 34–92) and other types and variants.

Coin types and variants missing from Lederer are also included in these groups. The dating of these groups given in brackets is approximate and based on Lederer 1931, SNG France 2 and SNG Levante. Lower silver denominations (third staters, obols, hemiobols and tetartemorions) and bronze coins are listed in separate sections.

 

Coin types

AR Staters
Obverse Reverse Distinctive features Type
Aphrodite seated on chair left Dionysos standing left obv.: Eros standing; wide-backed chair
rev.: NAΓIΔEΩN
1.1, 1.2
obv.: Eros flying; chair with curved back and legs
rev.: NAΓIΔEΩN or NAΓIΔIKON or NAΓIΔ
1.3, 1.4
obv.: Eros standing
rev.: NAΓIΔEΩN or NAΓIΔ or NAΓI
2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.7, 2.8
obv.: Eros standing on platform; lit altar
rev.: NAΓIΔEΩN
2.5, 2.6
obv.: Eros flying; in exergue, Π
rev.: NAΓIΔEΩN
3.1
obv.: Eros flying; below chair, mouse
rev.: NAΓIΔEΩN
3.2, 3.3
obv.: Eros flying; below chair, mouse
rev.: NAΓIΔIKON
3.4, 3.5
obv.: Eros flying; below chair, mouse; rose bush with flower and two buds
rev.: NAΓIΔIKON or garbled form
3.6
obv.: Eros flying; below chair, mouse; rose bush with flower and one bud
rev.: NAΓIΔIKON
3.7
obv.: Eros flying; below chair, mouse; rose bush with flower and one bud
rev.: NAΓIΔIKON TΩNΔΩ
3.8
obv.: Eros flying; below chair, mouse; rose flower
rev.: NAΓIΔIKON
3.9
right bearded bust of warrior left obv.: sphinx; in left field, NAΓIΔIKON
rev.: Aramaic inscriptions
2.1
head of Dionysos right head of Aphrodite right rev.: NAΓIΔEΩN or NAΓIΔEΩ or NAΓIΔIKON or NAΓIΔE 1.5
right head of satrap right rev.: ethnic abbreviated to NA 1.6
AR Third Staters
Obverse Reverse Distinctive features Type
Aphrodite seated on chair left Dionysos standing left obv.: Eros crouching with clasped hands
rev.: NAΓIΔ
4.1
obv.: Eros standing
rev.: NAΓIΔIKON
4.2
AR Obols
Obverse Reverse Distinctive features Type
head of Aphrodite left head of Dionysos left   5.1
right   5.2
right head of Dionysos left rev. incuse circle 5.3
rev. dotted border 5.4
right rev. no border, complete ethnic 5.5
rev. dotted border 5.6
facing head of Dionysos facing young Dionysos 5.7
head of Pan right head of Dionysos right   5.8
right amphora     5.9
head of Dionysos left amphora     5.10
amphora   kantharos     5.11
seated Baal left head of Tyche left   5.12
AR Hemiobols
Obverse Reverse Distinctive features Type
head of Aphrodite left head of Dionysos left anepigraphic 6.1
head of Aphrodite right head of Dionysos left anepigraphic 6.2
AR Tetartemorions
Obverse Reverse Distinctive features Type
head of Aphrodite right human torso     7.1
Bronze coins
Obverse Reverse Distinctive features Type
head of Pan right amphora     8.1
head of Dionysos right kantharos     8.2
seated Baal left head of Aphrodite right   8.3

 

Additional symbols

Symbol Denomination Position Orientation Type
astragalos stater rev.: upper left field 3.4o–r, 3.5e
bunch of grapes and vine leaves stater rev.: upper left field inclined 1.1a–c, 1.2, 1.4
cross stater rev.: upper left field 3.5a
fly stater rev.: upper left field right 3.4k
grain ear stater rev.: left field vertical 3.6f
grasshopper stater rev.: upper left field right 3.4i–j
ivy flower stater rev.: left field 3.4h, 3.6g
lion’s head stater rev.: upper left field left 3.4m–n
mouse stater obv.: below throne left 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10
rose flower stater obv.: lower left field vertical 3.9
rev.: upper left field vertical 3.4l
rose bush stater obv.: lower left field vertical 3.6, 3.7, 3.8
star stater rev.: upper left field 3.4d–g

 

City ethnic

Ethnic Denomination Position Type
NAΓIΔEΩN stater rev. 1.1, 1.2, 1.3d, 1.4, 1.5b, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7a, 2.8, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
obol rev. 5.5, 5.10, 5.11a
NAΓIΔEΩ stater rev. 1.5a
NAΓIΔE stater rev. 1.5c
NAΓIΔ stater rev. 1.3a, 2.2, 2.3
third stater rev. 4.1
NAΓI obol rev. 5.1b, 5.2, 5.3a, 5.6d, 5.8, 5.9b, 5.11e–f
hemiobol rev. 6.1
tetartemorion rev. 7.1
bronze coins rev. 8.1a, 8.2
NAΓ obol rev. 5.1c
bronze coins rev. 8.1b–c
NA stater rev. 1.6
obol rev. 5.3b, 5.6c, 5.9c, 5.11b–c, 5.12
bronze coins rev. 8.3
N obol obv. 5.6a
obv. & rev. 5.4, 5.6b, 5.7
NAΓIΔIKON stater obv. 2.1
rev. 1.3b–c, e–h, 1.5d–e, 2.7b, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.9
third stater rev. 4.2
obol rev. 5.9a
NAΓIΔIKON TΩNΔΩ stater rev. 3.8
NAΓIΔI obol rev. 5.1a, d
NAΓIΔIIKON (sic) stater rev. 3.6l
NΔΓIΔIKON (sic) stater rev. 3.6i
anepigraphic obol 5.3c, 5.9d, 5.11d, g
hemiobol 6.2
bronze coins 8.1d

 

Lederer’s types mapping

Philipp Lederer’s 1931 study “Die Staterprägung der Stadt Nagidos” is still the most detailed work on Nagidos’s staters. The following table maps the coin types in Lederer’s study to the coin types in this preliminary online catalogue.

Lederer 1931 This catalogue
Group Type Group Type
I 1 1 1.1a
2 1.1a
3 1.1c
4 1.1d
II 5 1.3a
6 1.3a
7 1.3b
8 1.3b
9 1.3c
10 1.3e
11 1.3e
12 1.3d
III 13 1.5a
14 1.5c
15 1.5a
16 1.5e
17 1.5e
18 1.5e
19 1.5e
IV 20 2 2.1
V 21 2.3a
22 2.4a
23 2.4b
24 2.4c
VI 25 2.6a
26 2.6b
27 2.5
28 2.6d
29 2.6c
30 2.6e
VII 31 2.7a
32 2.7a
33 2.8
VIII 34 3 3.1b
35 3.1b
36 3.1a
37 3.1d
38 3.2a
39 3.2c
40 3.2b
41 3.2e
IX 42 3.3a
43 3.3a
44 3.3b
45 3.4d
46 3.4e, 3.4f
47 3.4c
48 3.4i
49 unidentifiable
50 3.4k
51 3.4m
52 3.4l
53 3.4o
54 3.5a
55 3.4a
56 3.5e
57 3.5c
X 58 3.6j
59 3.6c
60 3.6b
61 3.6b
62 3.6e
63 3.6e
64 3.6e
65 3.6d
66 3.6i
67 3.6m
68 3.6m
69 3.8c
70 3.8d
71 3.8a
72 3.7d
73 3.7d
74 3.7h
75 3.7f
76 3.7j
77 3.7i
78 3.7g
79 3.7e
80 3.7c
81 unidentifiable
82 3.7n
83 3.7o
84 3.7p
85 unidentifiable
86 3.7r
87 unidentifiable
88 3.7r
89 3.7r
90 3.9c
91 3.9b
92 3.6l

 

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