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bgr_775945 - IONIA - IONIAN ISLANDS - CHIOS Drachme

IONIA - IONIAN ISLANDS - CHIOS Drachme AU
350.00 €(Approx. 378.00$ | 301.00£)
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Type : Drachme
Date: c. 290-275 AC.
Mint name / Town : Chios, Ionie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,22 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, mince, centré. Joli revers finement détaillé. Portrait bien venu à la frappe. Patine grise
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête imberbe d’Héraklès à droite, coiffée de la léonté.

Reverse


Reverse description : Zeus aétophore, nu jusqu’à la ceinture assis à gauche, les jambes croisées sur un siège ornementé avec un dossier, tenant un aigle de la main droite tendue et un sceptre long de la main gauche ; dans le champ à gauche, une grappe de raisin ; au-dessus, un monogramme.
Reverse legend : ALEXANDROU// (PURQU).

Commentary


Monnayage au nom et au type d’Alexandre III le Grand.

Historical background


IONIA - IONIAN ISLANDS - CHIOS

(3rd - 1st 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 participated 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 about 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 Mithridates VI du Pont in 86 for having supported the Romans. Sulla restored the city in 84 BC and declared it an ally of Rome.

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