Ancient Coins: The Achaemenid Empire
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- The Achaemenids were a massive middle-eastern Empire from the 6th to the 4th centuries BC. This behemoth posed the single biggest threat to the ancient greeks until the coming of Alexander the Great, and today we are going to look at some of their coins
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Perfect topic of a video. These coins are so interesting! Really the first mass produced coin.
Thats true, these were the first truly mass produced coins.
Despite Lydia's wealth, the numbers of their coin issues pale in comparison to the achaemenids.
Fantastic coins!
This channel is a window for me to see coins which normally I’d have no hope of seeing
And your commentary is very informative and entertaining, thank you for your work! I love your channel, cheers
I bet you could get one of the more common types for under $100. You should go for it!
I have 2 and paid $20 or less for each. They are very obtainable :)
Thank you for the kind words! As Others commented below, the Siglos in particular isnt a prohibitively expensive coin, you should be able to have one :)
Archer-horseman coin is absolutely stunning!
Its indeed wonderful! Making this video showed me a whole array of new coins I wasnt aware of
@@ClassicalNumismatics Have you seen / made reviews on the silver and copper coins of the cities of Bosporus? Fanagoria, Pantikapaiton, and others? If not, I highly recommend, they're amazing, too :)
I just bought my first Siglos through Savoca. Thank you for a wonderful video!
I love your videos. You are doing a great job. I would love a video on Demetrius of Bactria and his coinage
Thank you for the breakdown of the four different types of designs. This helped me identify the one siglos I have as a type III.
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Grazie mille! ❤🇮🇹
Wow, this is the best explanation of Achaemenid coins I've seen anywhere! Do you have any more sources for one to read more specifically about such coins? Thanks and great job!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! This link to "Forum Ancient Coins" might give you some interesting sources and base material to start studying the achaemenids and their coins :)
www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=siglos
@@ClassicalNumismatics I'll check it out, thanks so much and keep up the great work!
A very useful and enjoyable video. I have 8 of these Achaemenid coins, but most are just the chunks of silver with incuse space and drill hole. One or two have a faint impression of the king with bow and lance. It's what I can get when shopping on a budget. Love holding these small chunks of silver!
Thanks Leo for the video 👍
Great stuff 👍
Thanks Gordon! Glad you enjoyed the video, I will be looking at unusual types of ancient coins more this year :)
Been collecting Roman for 60 years,but had no knowledge,of this fascinating coinage. Thank you!
Eastern coinage is criminally underappreciated, and a very interesting niche for a collection, give it a try!
That can be really interesting to be watching every time, I am always curious about everything of those coins in Persian Empire era
Great video ! Please make a video about the coins of the Armenian Kingdom ( Artaxiad Kingdom and Kingdom of Cilicia ). Thank you!!!
Thats an interesting topic! I still need to study Armenian numismatic history, but when I get into it I will definitely make some content on it.
I also strongly suggest people that have armenian coins and are interested on showing them make their own videos
Excellent coinage, the sigloi are a favourite of mine. They are a relatively affordable choice compared to archaic Greek coinage, unfortunately most of them have test marks…
I wonder if the Persian merchants were more likely to defraud people if that's the case, or visa versa perhaps. It's like signs that say, "Don't do X", nobody puts those up because other people avoid that thing naturally, they put it up because people keep doing it and you're preempting the issue.
Thank you for the great content
I have a type 3 siglos from the time of Xerxes/Artaxerxes. It feels good in hand!
Great video, as usual! Did they have any base metal coins in Achaemenid Empire?
No, they didnt :)
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Really enjoyed this exploration of Persian & Satrapal-Persian designs. Hadn't considered how early the Siglos were in classical economies! Persistently minted for such an immense period; I wonder whether these were as reputable in distant Greek Italy..
I have a fouree of one of these. Indeed the incuse did little to stop it!
Ohh thats very cool!
Hello, why did you say about the issues of coins with a lion? They went there too.
Much love
I have a early type three Persian siglos coin seems to be a common type judging by the comments
It seems to be the most common indeed, maybe tied up with type 4, both were struck for a very long time. Type 4 was even made, albeit in small numbers, after Alexander's conquests.
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So these local coins by the Satraps were precious metal as well? Interesting. You'd have thought that the King of Kings would keep precious metal minting under his own control, while lesser coins could be minted by his appointees for local commerce.
I believe much of Persian law permitted & encouraged independent commerce! Likely considering the vast variety of cultures to be best acknowledged as though a series of allied communities, rather than a single omni-kingdom.
When was gold coin introduced?
Around Vima Kadphises or Kushan era in the Indian subcontinent. 600 years after the Achaemenid Empire.
Are emperors or some heroes from their religion depicted on those coins?
Not in the imperial types, these generally only show the king of kings.
The Achaemenids allowed their vassals and satraps to strike their own coins, in these you might find different designs
I have a type 3 of both the Siglos and the Daric. Mine are both slabbed by NGC - both 5/5 on strike and surface - EF * on the Siglos and AU on the Daric. I think the Darics were hoarded more while Sigloi were circulated. So higher quality Sigloi aren’t really available. I actually spent more for my Siglos than for my Daric.
Thanks for the video! Good to know the gold/silver ratio of the Persians.
What is the difference in TYPE III coins some are 485-375 BC and others 420-375 BC .I just can't spot the difference.
There are subtle differences, I recommend you look at more coins online, as both types are different from one another.
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Make a video about ancient Armenian or pontian coins
Once I know a bit more about them, definitely :)
I strongly recommend that if you do have knowledge on these coins, you make a video too, people on youtube are starved of good numismatic knowledge.
Hi, i just bought my first one, could you help me with identification?😅
No. Google "Forum ancient coins carradice type Siglos" and check out the article there, it should help you identifying it yourself :)
Please make a video on the Ancient Armenian kingdoms, Sophene, Commagene, Osroene, and the Armenian empire. You may also mention Tiribazes and the Orontes as the first Armenian rulers depicted on the coin (Sophene was the first official Armenian coins though)
Lingual inscriptions came way later, around 300 BCE
They are more akin to proto money but also a coin a very in between form of money in my view I wonder how the population even got these coins the total population of the world In 500s bce is just so low it’s amazing to think that crude coins were allready spreading
It's more amazing that civilization had been chugging along for some 3500 years prior to that point and nobody had decided this was a clever idea until the Lydians, who knows whether it would've caught on without the Persians bringing their invention to world relevance and prominence.
Veramente bel video complimenti. Monete fantastiche. Un saluto dal mio canale RUclips e dalla Sicilia 😊
Grazie mille :)