Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 3495 Session 11 (9.30am Thursday) Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $150
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SOLD $200
IONIA, Smyrna, (c.2nd-1st century B.C.), AE 19, (8.96 gm), 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 in Symrna mentioned by Strabo.
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