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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Ionia| > |Ephesos| > GS94115
Ephesos, Ionia, c. 390 - 320 B.C.
|Ephesos|, |Ephesos,| |Ionia,| |c.| |390| |-| |320| |B.C.|, In 356 B.C. the temple of Artemis was burned down, according to legend, by a lunatic called Herostratus. Ephesus planned a larger, grander temple and at once started rebuilding. When Alexander the Great defeated the Persian forces at the Battle of Granicus in 334 B.C., the Greek cities of Anatolia were liberated. The pro-Persian tyrant Syrpax and his family were stoned to death, and Alexander was greeted warmly when he entered Ephesus in triumph. When Alexander saw that the temple of Artemis was not yet finished, he proposed to finance it and have his name inscribed on the front. But the Ephesians demurred, saying it was not fitting for one god to build a temple to another.
GS94115. Silver diobol, SNG Kayhan 194; SNG Cop 243; SNGvA 1835; SNG Munchen 32; BMC Ionia p. 53, 53, aVF, dark tone, off center on a tight flan, Ephesos (near Selcuk, Turkey) mint, weight .0885g, maximum diameter 9.5mm, die axis 315o, c. 390 - 320 B.C.; obverse bee with straight wings, seen from above; reverse confronted heads of two stags, ΕΦ above; from the Michael Arslan Collection; SOLD











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