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LOT 3182
Ionia, Smyrna AE Homereion. Circa 105-95 BC. ΑΠΑΤΟΥΡΙΟΣ (Apatourios), magistrate.
Laureate head of Apollo to right / ΣΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ ΑΠΑΤΟΥΡΙΟΣ, Homer seated to left, resting chin on hand and holding scroll; monogram of ΠΑΡ to left. Milne, Autonomous, Period XIII, 278. Good Very Fine. Lovely dark green and brown patina.(7.99gr, 19mm, 12h.).
Provenance
Ex Münzzentrum Rheinland.
Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
Footnotes
Strabo mentions specifically this issue of bronze coinage from Smyrna when, discussing the city, he says "there is also a library; and the 'Homereum', a quadrangular portico containing a shrine and wooden statue of Homer; for the Smyrnaeans also lay especial claim to the poet and indeed a bronze coin of theirs is called a Homereum" (Strabo, Geographica XIV, I.37, transl. by H.C. Jones, The Geography of Strabo, VI [Loeb, 1960], pp. 245-247).
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