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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Ionia| > |Other Ionia| > GS71552
Samos, Islands off Ionia, c. 400 - 380 B.C.
|Other| |Ionia|, |Samos,| |Islands| |off| |Ionia,| |c.| |400| |-| |380| |B.C.|, Samos is the birthplace of Pythagoras. One of the famous attractions of the island is the aqueduct-tunnel which was dug through a mountain to bring water to the city from a secret spring. The tunnel was in use for a very long period and discovered in 19th century thanks to Herodotos' writing of it. The tunnel is over 1000m long, an engineering marvel dug from both ends by two simultaneously working teams.
GS71552. Silver diobol, Barron p. 212, 1 ff.; SNG Cop 1690; SNGvA 2295; SNG Kayhan 667; BMC Ionia p. 363, 140 ff.; HGC 6 1224 (R2), F, grainy, Islands of Ionia, Samos mint, weight 1.099g, maximum diameter 9.8mm, die axis 90o, c. 400 - 380 B.C.; obverse facing lion head (scalp?); reverse prow of Samian galley right, ΣA below; rare; SOLD




  






REFERENCES

Schaaff, Ulrich. Münzen der römischen Kaiserzeit mit Schiffsdarstellungen im Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseum. (Munich, 2003).

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