v23_0117 - IONIA - TEOS Statère
MONNAIES 23 (2004)
Starting price : 950.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
Realised price : 950.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 1 045.00 €
Starting price : 950.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
Realised price : 950.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 1 045.00 €
Type : Statère
Date: c. 470/65-449 AC.
Mint name / Town : Téos, Ionie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25,5 mm
Orientation dies : - h.
Weight : 11,98 g.
Rarity : R3
Emission: série 54
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, mais irrégulier. Petite faiblesse de frappe à l’exergue. Joli revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Griffon assis à gauche, les ailes repliées, levant l'antérieur gauche ; sous le griffon, tête de panthère ; exergue festonnée.
Obverse legend : T-HI-O-N.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Carré creux quadripartite.
Commentary
Même coin de droit que les exemplaires du British Museum (BMC. 19) et du Cabinet des médailles de la Bnf (B. 1943). Début de cassure de coin perceptible au revers.
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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