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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Ionia| > |Phokaia| > GA71688
Phokaia, Ionia, c. 521 - 478 B.C.
|Phokaia|, |Phokaia,| |Ionia,| |c.| |521| |-| |478| |B.C.|, According to Herodotus the Phocaeans were the first Greeks to make long sea-voyages, having discovered the coasts of the Adriatic, Tyrrhenia and Spain. Herodotus relates that they so impressed Arganthonios, king of Tartessus in Spain, that he invited them to settle there, and, when they declined, gave them a great sum of money to build a wall around their city.
GA71688. Silver obol, SNGvA 2118; SNG Tüb 3116; BMC Ionia p. 215, 84; Klein 449; SNG Cop -; SNG Kayhan -; SNG Keckman -; SNG Mün -, gVF, toned, Phokaia (Foca, Turkey) mint, weight 0.707g, maximum diameter 8.9mm, c. 521 - 478 B.C.; obverse head of griffin left; reverse rough quadripartite incuse square; SOLD




  







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