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Coin ID #5937

Smyrna (BC 190-50) AE 21

2nd-1st century BC. AE21 (8.83g), struck under magistrates Xarizenos and Trikkas. Head of Apollo, laureate, right / ΣMYPNAIΩN - XAPIZENOΣ / TPIKKAΣ, the poet Homer, wearing himation, standing left, holding scroll in left hand, right hand raised. VF, nice dark-green patina, adjustment marks on rev. Hoeft coll.

Strabo mentioned specifically this issue of bronze coinage from Smyrna: "there is also a library; and the 'Homereum', a quadrangular portico containing a shrine and a wooden statue of Homer; for the Smyrnaeans also lay especial claim to the poet and indeed a bronze coin of theirs is called Homereum. (Strabo, Geographica XIV, I.37, transl. by H.C. Jones, The Geography of Strabo, VI [Loeb, 1960], pp. 245-247)

File information
Filename:smyrna_BMC67.jpg
City/Mint name:Smyrna
Keywords:bronze / hellenistic
References:BMC Ionia, p. 243, 67; SNG Copenhagen 1124 var.
Valuation:€210, Dr. Brandt; ex CNG Auc. 77 (9/1997), lot 37
Photo courtesy of:Dr. Brandt - www.vcoins.com/ancient/klassische-muenzen
Filesize:60 KiB
Date added:May 20, 2009
Dimensions:696 x 338 pixels
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