v43_0197 - IONIA - TEOS Tartemorion
MONNAIES 43 (2010)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Tartemorion
Date: c. 478-449 AC
Mint name / Town : Téos, Ionie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 7 mm
Orientation dies : - h.
Weight : 0,25 g.
Rarity : R2
Emission: série 73
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan régulier, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau masque de griffon. Joli revers avec un carré creux bien venu à la frappe. Patine foncée au droit, plus claire au revers
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de griffon à droite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Carré creux quadripartite.
Commentary
Semble de mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS) pesant 0,185 g. Début de cassure perceptible au revers dans le carré creux.
Appears to be the same dies as the American Numismatic Society (ANS) specimen weighing 0.185 g. Beginning of breakage noticeable on the reverse in the hollow square
Appears to be the same dies as the American Numismatic Society (ANS) specimen weighing 0.185 g. Beginning of breakage noticeable on the reverse in the hollow square
Historical background
IONIA - TEOS
(6th - 5th century BC)
Teos was a very old city that its inhabitants abandoned in 544 BC, when the Persians invaded Ionia, to go and found Abdera in Thrace. Less than 50 years later, settlers from Abdera refounded the city of Asia Minor, which explains why both cities had griffins on their coins. Teos was renowned for its Ionic order temple built by Hermogenes and dedicated to Dionysus.
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