v18_0107 - IONIA - TEOS Trihemiobole
MONNAIES 18 (2003)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Trihemiobole
Date: c. 470/65-449 AC.
Mint name / Town : Téos, Ionie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 13 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,37 g.
Rarity : R3
Emission: série 62
Coments on the condition:
Patine foncée. Légèrement décentré sur le symbole
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection Deglatigny, Feuardent, 16-17 novembre 1937, n° 39
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Griffon assis à gauche, les ailes repliées, levant l'antérieur gauche ; sous le griffon, une fleur de lotus avec sa feuille ; T au-dessus du griffon.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Carré creux quadripartite.
Commentary
Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire du musée de Léningrad.
Same corners as the copy in the Leningrad Museum
Same corners as the copy in the Leningrad Museum
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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