Collection of Greek Coins of Thrace
Dixazelmeus Rex Thraciae 100-1 BC
Διξαζελμεύς Βασιλέας Θράκης
| BM Black Sea: 1st c. BC; Κουρτίδης:
1st C. BC;
Moushmov: ??? BC; Peykov: 87-70 BC; Pauly: ---; Youroukova: --- |
| Dixazelmeus
was a Thracian Dynast of whom virtually nothing is known. His extremely
rare coinage is usually dated to 75-50 BC, a date that seems rather
late for the style and the fabrique of the flans. In fact, Evgeni I.
Paunov has recently argued that Dixazelmeus was the predecessor of
Mostis, a Dynast whose reign can safely be dated not later than the
last quarter of the 2nd Century BC (Evgeni I. Paunov: The Coinage of
the Thracian King Mostis, in: Proceedings of the First International
Congress of the Anatolian Monetary History and Numismatics, Antalya,
25-28 February 2013, p. 457 ff). This would place Dixazelmeus in the
mid 2nd Century. Only six coins in his name have been published to
date: Two in the BM, one in the ANS, one recorded by Moushmov, and two
offered by Gorny & Mosch as lot 128 in their auction 207 of 2012,
and recently, in 2016, as lot 1296 in auction 241. Our coin appears to
be a hitherto unpublished, larger denomination: not only is it
considerably heavier than all the other specimens, it is also the only
coin with a laureate head of Apollo on the obverse rather than the
usual head of a youthful Dionysos with an ivy-wreath. [Obolos 6/279, 20.11.2016] |
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| 4. SHH 7486 | 5.
SHH 6279 |
8. SHH
7381 |
| Apollo
/ Pointed Amphora; BAΣIΛEΩΣ
/ ΔΙΞΑTΕΛΜΕΩΣ AE 15-18 mm 3.70-6.58 g BM Black Sea 320/321; Peykov C6100 Statistics 1/1 Images 1/1 |
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