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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Ionia| > |Magnesia ad Meandrum| > RS77039
Magnesia, Ionia, c. 350 - 190 B.C.
|Magnesia| |ad| |Meandrum|, |Magnesia,| |Ionia,| |c.| |350| |-| |190| |B.C.|, Magnesia ad Maeandrum was an inland city of Ionia, located on a small tributary of the Maeander River about 12 miles southeast of Ephesus. "..the temple of Artemis Leukophryene, which in the size of its shrine and in the number of its votive offerings is inferior to the temple at Ephesos, but in the harmony and skill shown in the structure of the sacred enclosure is far superior to it. And in size it surpasses all the sacred enclosures in Asia except two, that at Ephesos (to Artemis) and that at Didymoi (to Apollo)" -- Strabo, Geography 14. 1. 40.
RS77039. Bronze AE 16, cf. BMC Ionia p. 161, 24 ff. (various magistrates); SNG Cop 811 - 812 (same), F, green patina, centered, Magnesia ad Maeandrum (near Tekin, Turkey) mint, weight 2.280g, maximum diameter 15.5mm, die axis 0o, c. 350 - 190 B.C.; obverse armed horseman in chlamys prancing right, holding couched spear; reverse humped bull butting left, MAΓN above, magistrate's name below; scarce; SOLD










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