weight 8,51gr. silver Ø 21mm. obv. Laureate head of Zeus right, lotus-tipped scepter over shoulder, B behind (lower left) rev. Eagle with folded wings standing right on winged thunderbolt sceptre (or sword) behind round shield in right field, OINOANΔЄωN below (off-flan).Oinoanda was an ancient Greek city in Lycia, in the upper valley of the River Xanthus. The early history of the settlement is obscure. It is already mentioned in Hittite texts as ″Wiyanawanda″ and it is certainly one of the oldest towns in this part of modern Turkey. It seems that Oinoanda became a colony of Termessos (Major) about 200-190 BC and was also called Termessos Minor. Oenoanda was the most southerly of the Kibyran Tetrapoleis in the Hellenistic Period, which was dissolved by L. Licinius Murena in 84 BC, whereupon Oenoanda, originally not a Lycian town, became part of the Koinon of Lycia, together with the cities Cibyra, Balbura, and Bubon.
In the second century AD, one of the citizens of Oenoanda, the Epicurean Diogenes, presented his town with a very large inscription on a long wall, in which he showed the Oenoandans the road to happiness. It is one of the most important sources for the philosophical school of Epicurus. It was originally about 25.000 words long and filled 260 square meters of wall space. The ruins of the city, discovered at the end of the nineteenth century, lie west of the modern village İncealiler in the Fethiye district of Muğla Province, Turkey, which partly overlies the ancient site.
The Treaty of Apamea of 188 BC, was peace treaty between the Roman Republic and Antiochus III, ruler of the Seleucid Empire. It is believed that this was the start of a new Era, also used on the coins of Oinoanda.
Until about two decade′s ago, only a single coin of Oinoanda, the example in the British Museum, acquired in 1897, was known to exist. The discovery in the early 2000s of a significant group of about 100 didrachms brought many more examples to market and added significantly to our understanding of the coinage, revealing that at least three distinct issues, marked by a sequence of letters and symbols, were originally struck. The presence of the lotus-scepter over the shoulder of Zeus and the eagle-on-thunderbolt reverse motif both suggest a close affinity to the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. BMC 1 (unique) | SNG.Copenhagen - | SNG.von Aulock- SNG.Tübingen- | Weber collection- | SNG.Delepierre- | McClean- Slg. Dr. Maag - (Peus Nachf. Auktion 407) | Ashton, NC 2005, 6b | Slg. Dr. Sayer 284 (Künker Auktion 402) | Müseler X, 13 Sear 5318 (unique) RR Beautiful specimen with attractive toning. Very rare. xf-
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