Greek Silver & Bronze
Lot 3281 Session 11 (9.30am Friday) Greek Silver & Bronze
Estimate $200
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IONIA, Smyrna, (c.2nd-1st century B.C.), AE 19, (8.96 grams), obv. laureate head of Apollo to right, rev. the poet Homer seated to left with the Magistrates names Nikadas, Metrodoros and Theydas, to right **[Z]MURNAIW[N]*, to left in three lines **NIKADAS [M]HTRODWR[OS] [QE]UDAS*, (S.4571, BMC 107 [p.246]). Dark brown patina, very fine/nearly extremely fine and very rare, a fine figure of the seated Homer.
See article in Studia Paulo Naster Oblata I Numismatica Antiqua, 'Homer on Coins from Smyrna' by C. Heyman. The author maintains that this coin's reverse represents the Homerea a famous statue of Homer from Symrna mentioned by Strabo.
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