Live auction - bgr_439782 - IONIA - IONIAN ISLANDS - CHIOS Unité
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| Estimate : | 250 € |
| Price : | 470 € |
| Maximum bid : | 470 € |
| End of the sale : | 01 August 2017 14:16:48 |
| bidders : | 5 bidders |
Type : Unité
Date: c. 290-240 AC.
Mint name / Town : Chios, Ionie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 4,06 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, parfaitement centré au droit, légèrement décentré au revers. Très beau sphinx. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Jolie patine verte
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Sphinx assis à droite, les ailes repliées ; devant, une grappe de raisin.
Reverse
Reverse description : Amphore vue de face ; dans le champ à gauche, une torche de course.
Reverse legend : CI-OS// LAMPROS.
Reverse translation : (Chios/ Lampros).
Commentary
Sur notre exemplaire, le nom du magistrat (Lampros) est associé à la torche de course.
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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