Artemisia I*: 496-479 BC. AR Obol Halikarnassos mint 7mm, 0.71g.

Obv: Pegasos forepart left charging / Rev: Goat forepart left, (Artemisia I's monogram?) below goat's mouth, all within incuse circle.

SNG Keckman 39; SNG Kayhan 757-8. VF.

Artemisia I, Satrap of Karka, Queen of Halikarnassos, Queen of Kos, admiral in Persian Navy, and a friend of Xerxes I, fought for the Persians during the Persian invasions of Greece from 493-480. In 480 BC, she had the rank of navpati at the Battle of Salamis.

*Note: Numismatists believe that this coin was struck between 500-480 BC. That period corresponds very closely to Artemisia I's reign (496-479 BC). In my research, I have not come across a numismatist who attributes this coin to Artemisia I, but I believe that the the 󿀆 beneath the goat's mouth is in fact Artemisia I's monogram.
 

Kaunos: 490- 470 BC: AR 1/1 6 Stater, 8mm, 052g.

Obv: Iris with curved wings knelling-running right looking back / Rev: griffin standing right Baetyl within incuse square.

SNG Helsinki 813

This coin was likely minted during Damasithymos' lifetime or just after it.

Uncertain: 5^th century BC. Hemidrachm or Triobol. 10mm, 1.99g.

Obv: Facing gorgoneion, surrounded by four wings [two are missing] in tilted clockwise rotation. Rev: Harpy flying right within pelleted square border; all within incuse square.

Cf. Traite II 1606 & pl. CXLV, 1 (drachm); Gorny & Mosch 211, lot 380 = Gorny & Mosch 199, lot 471 = Muenzen & Medaillen 34, lot 76. Extremely rare, Near very fine.

In The Blood Throne of Caria, I attribute this coin to Kaunos. There is no evidence that it was Kaunos, Damasithymos, or even in the first two decades of the 5th century BC. This was the only time I knowingly took so much license with the history.

Kindya, Caria: 510-490 BC. AR Tetrobol circa  AR 12mm 197g.

Ob: Head of ketos roaring left / Rev: Stellate pattern in latticed frame set diagonally within incuse square possibly representing a fishing net.

Rosen 619. SNG Kayhan 810.

Miletos, Ionia: 550-500 BC. Diobol 9mm, 1.13g

Obv: Lion’s head roaraing left / Rev: Stellate star pattern in incuse square