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bgr_325836 - IONIA - IONIAN ISLANDS - CHIOS Tetrobole

IONIA - IONIAN ISLANDS - CHIOS Tetrobole VF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 135.00 €
Type : Tetrobole
Date: c. 478-431 AC.
Mint name / Town : Chios, Ionie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 11 mm
Weight : 2,21 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan globulaire bien centré à l’usure importante, mais identifiable. Carré creux très profond. Jolie patine gris foncé avec des reflets dorés
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Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Sphinx assis à gauche, les ailes repliées ; devant, dans le champ à gauche, une amphore surmontée d’une grappe de raisin ; le tout sur une surface bombée (bouclier).

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Carré creux quadripartite profond.

Historical background


IONIA - IONIAN ISLANDS - CHIOS

(6th - 5th century BC)

The island and town of Chios was located opposite the city of Eritrea. Coinage began in the middle of the 6th century BC and lasted, for the archaic style, until the middle of the 4th century BC. Chios was a famous port and commercial centre. The city seems to have taken part in the revolt of Ionia against the Persian yoke at the beginning of the 5th century BC (500-494 AC.), (Herodotus VI.26). A decade later, she sends a fleet of seventeen ships to Xerxes who is preparing to invade Greece (Herodotus, VII.95). The island seems to have belonged to the league of Delos after 477 BC. The city is the ally of Athens. Chios left the alliance in 412 BC. From the 3rd century, Chios lost its autonomy, which it only regained after the Peace of Apamea in 188 BC. The city was ravaged by Mithradates VI du Pont in 86 for having supported the Romans. Sulla restored the city and 84 and declared it an ally of Rome.

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