Holmoi, Staters – Group 1

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.

Holmoi, Staters, Group 1

Type 1.1a, Specimen 1 (Corpus no. 1). Obverse and reverse dies O1/R1.

Holmoi, Staters, Group 1

Type 1.1b, Specimen 1 (Corpus no. 2). Obverse and reverse dies O1/R1b.

Holmoi, Staters, Group 1

Type 1.1b, Specimen 2 (Corpus no. 3). Obverse and reverse dies O1/R1b.

Holmoi, Staters, Group 1

Type 1.1b, Specimen 3 (Corpus no. 4). Obverse and reverse dies O1/R1b.

Holmoi, Staters, Group 1

Type 1.1b, Specimen 4 (Corpus no. 5). Obverse and reverse dies O1/R1b.

Holmoi, Staters, Group 1

Type 1.1b, Specimen 5 (Corpus no. 6). Obverse and reverse dies O1/R1b.

Holmoi, Staters, Group 1

Type 1.1b, Specimen 6 (Corpus no. 7). Obverse and reverse dies O1/R1b.

Holmoi, Staters, Group 1

Type 1.1b, Specimen 7 (Corpus no. 8). Obverse and reverse dies O1/R1b.

Holmoi, Staters, Group 1

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