LOT 3181
Ionia, Smyrna AE Homereion. After 190 BC. EΡΜΟΛΑΟΣ ΠΑΡΜΕΝΙΟΝΤΟΣ (Hermolaos, son of Parmenion), magistrate.
Laureate head of Apollo to right / Homer seated to left, holding scroll, transverse sceptre behind; [Z]MYPNAIΩN to right, EPMOΛAOΣ ΠΑΡΜΕΝΙΟ[NΤΟΣ] in three lines to left. BMC -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -; Milne (NC 1927) Pg. 88, No. 302. Good Very Fine. Dark green patina. Extremely Rare.(8.84gr, 20mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK market.
Property of a London antiquarian.
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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