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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Ionia| > |Colophon| > GS81299
Kolophon, Ionia, c. 375 - 360 B.C.
|Colophon|, |Kolophon,| |Ionia,| |c.| |375| |-| |360| |B.C.|, The kithara (cithara) was an ancient stringed musical instrument resembling the lyre, a simpler two-stringed folk-instrument, but with seven strings and a flat back. A symbol of Apollo, credited with inventing it, the kithara's origins were likely Asiatic. The kithara was primarily used by professional musicians, called kitharodes. In modern Greek, the word kithara has come to mean "guitar."
GS81299. Silver diobol, Milne Colophon 57a, SNG Cop 142, VF, Kolophon (near Degirmendere Fev, Turkey) mint, weight 1.009g, maximum diameter 11.5mm, die axis 0o, magistrate Posis, c. 375 - 360 B.C.; obverse laureate head of Apollo left; reverse kithara (lyre), KOΛOΦΩ upward on left, ΠOΣIΣ (magistrate name) downward on right; SOLD











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