Abstract
Elmalı Museum, located in the district of Elmalı of Antalya, is on the route which connected Milyas and Cabalis to Lycia in antiquity. Due to Elmalı’s strategic location, potential data to be presented by the coins, particularly Hellenistic period regal issues, in the museum collection is significant. Museum inventory records 506 coins in total and 472 coins are dated to pre-Islamic periods. In museum collection, there are 32 Hellenistic period regal coins. They include Macedonian, Ptolemaic, Seleucid and Lysimachos coins. The material clearly reflects the Hellenistic kingdom’s existence over the region. Anatolian museums’ unpublished numismatic materials have importance for presenting rare or previously unknown specimens to the numismatic literature, Hellenistic period’s regal issues in Elmalı Museum help us review existing attributions and reexamine unattributed issues. In this study, coins in museum collection are introduced and presented with historical background.
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