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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Ionia| > |Phokaia| > GA88087
Phokaia, Ionia, c. 521 - 478 B.C.
|Phokaia|, |Phokaia,| |Ionia,| |c.| |521| |-| |478| |B.C.|, Phokaia was the most northerly of the Ionian communities in Anatolia and was the mother city of many colonies in the western Mediterranean area, including Massalia (modern Marseille, France). This type (with approximately the same weight) is identified in references variously as a diobol, a trihemiobol, a hemihekte, or a 1/12 stater.
GA88087. Silver hemihekte, Cahn Ionische 2, SNG Kayhan 522, SNGvA 1813, Rosen 597 (trihemiobol), Klein 452 (diobol), VF, centered on a crowded flan, etched surfaces, Phokaia (Foca, Turkey) mint, weight 1.247g, maximum diameter 10.1mm, late 6th century B.C.; obverse head of nymph left, curly hair in three rows of dots, sakkos ornamented with a cross band of pearls, round earring with six pearls; reverse irregular quadripartite incuse square; SOLD




  







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