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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Caria| > |Kaunos| > GB66020
Kaunos, Caria, c. 390 - 270 B.C.
|Kaunos|, |Kaunos,| |Caria,| |c.| |390| |-| |270| |B.C.|, Gergis, on the north of the river Scamnander in Troas, was believed by some to have been the birthplace of the Sibyl. After Herakles slew his wife and children in a fit induced by Hera, Sybil Herophile told him that as penance he was must to carry out twelve tasks set by his arch-enemy, Eurystheus, who had become King in his stead. In the mid-third century B.C., King Attalus of Pergamon transplanted the inhabitants of Gergis to a place called Gergetha or Gergithion, near Larissa in Cyme.
GB66020. Bronze chalkous, Konuk Kaunos 118, SNG Keckman 828, aVF, Kaunos (Dalyan, Turkey) mint, weight 1.126g, maximum diameter 10.1mm, die axis 0o, c. 390 - 270 B.C.; obverse facing head of Apollo turned slightly to right; reverse sphinx seated left, curved wing raised upward; ; SOLD










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