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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Ionia| > |Other Ionia| > GA85719
Klazomenai, Ionia, c. 499 - 494 B.C.
|Other| |Ionia|, |Klazomenai,| |Ionia,| |c.| |499| |-| |494| |B.C.|, "And at least six Greek towns used the image of a winged boar on their coins: Klazomenai, Samos, Kyzikos, Ialysos, Kisthene and Mytilene. This winged boar is usually identified as Chrysaor, brother of Pegasus. On coins we only see the front half of the animal (the technical numismatic term is "protome" - which roughly translates as "first cut.") The rest of Chrysaor shows up painted on the shield of Geryon, who fights Herakles on a famous cup painted by the artist Euphronios (ca. 500 BCE)." -- "This Little Piggy Went to Market: Boars, Hogs, Sows and Piglets on Ancient Coins" by Mike Markowitz in CoinWeek
GA85719. Silver diobol, SNGvA 1984, SNG Tübingen 455, SNG Cop 7, SNG Munchen -, BMC Ionia -, VF, toned, scratches, porosity, edge cracks, Klazomenai (near Urla Turkey) mint, weight 1.049g, maximum diameter 11.2mm, die axis 0o, c. 499 - 494 B.C.; obverse forepart of a winged boar right, A above; reverse quadripartite incuse square; scarce variety; SOLD











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