KOINON V, 2022

Nicholas J. Molinari, PhD, is an academic librarian in Milford, Massachusetts and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Salve Regina University in Newport, RI. He is the author, with Dr Nicola Sisci, of ΠΟΤΑΜΙΚΟΝ: Sinews of Acheloios (Archaeopress, 2016), and general editor of KOINON: The International Journal of Classical Numismatics.

Editorial: Celebrating our Fifth Year with Cheiron, the Son of Kronos and Philyra ;



GREEK COINAGE ;


Nicola Ignarra’s Encounter with a 3rd Century BC Neapolitan Coin Featuring SVESA in Reverse Field – NICHOLAS J. MOLINARI and CURTIS CLAY ;


Reintroducing Acheloios Hermotos of Parion – NICHOLAS J. MOLINARI ;


Parthenope’s Embodiment of Victory and the Crowning of Acheloios as ‘Victor over Death’: A Reconsideration of the Reverse Motif Exhibited on Neapolitan Coinage – NICHOLAS J. MOLINARI ;


A Newly Identified Mint Control Link in the Coinage of Andragoras and Sophytes – LLOYD W. H. TAYLOR ;


Sophytes and the Mirage of an ‘Indian’ Weight Standard – LLOYD W. H. TAYLOR ;



ROMAN COINAGE ;


A Succession of Coinages in the Balkans: Imitation Roman Republican Denarii Overstruck on Drachms of Apollonia and Dyrrhachium – DAVID MACDONALD ;


Roman Lead ‘Iao Abrasax’ Amulets: Magical Pendants, Rings, and Beads – GERT BOERSEMA ;


An Unpublished Tremissis in the Name of Honorius – DIRK FALTIN ;



MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN COINAGE ;


Interesting Symbols on some Deniers Tournois of Naupaktos – ANDREI BONTAS ;


An Unrecognized Countermark of the Knights of Malta – DAVID MACDONALD ;



REVIEWS ;


Review of Powell, Anton, and Andrew Burnett (eds.). 2020. Coins of the Roman Revolution, 49 BC-AD 14. Evidence without Hindsight – ALBERTO CAMPANA ;


Review of Caza, Shawn M. 2021. A Handbook of Late Roman Bronze Coin Types, 324-395 – VIRGIL H. HOUSTON JR. ;



CATALOG OF NEW VARIETIES