bgr_442651 - IONIA - IONIAN ISLANDS - CHIOS Demi-unité
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Type : Demi-unité
Date: c. 80-30 AC.
Mint name / Town : Chios, Ionie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 14,5 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 2,31 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré des deux côtés. Joli droit. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine vert foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Sphinx assis à droite, les ailes repliées, tenant une amphore de la patte gauche.
Reverse
Reverse description : Amphore vue de face dans une couronne de vigne.
Reverse legend : CIOS// TRUFWN.
Reverse translation : (Chios/ Tryphon).
Commentary
Ce magistrat est signalé avec un erreur de lecture pour la drachme d’étalon rhodien frappée au Ier siècle avant J.-C. Notre exemplaire est particulier car le sphinx tient une amphore. Semble complètement inédit et non recensé pour le monnayage de cuivre.
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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