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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Ionia| > |Other Ionia| > GB96789
Erythrai, Ionia, c. 3rd Century B.C.
|Other| |Ionia|, |Erythrai,| |Ionia,| |c.| |3rd| |Century| |B.C.|,
The ruins of Erythrai are north of the town Ildiri in the Cesme district of Izmir Province, Turkey. The city did not lie exactly on the coast, but some little distance inland, and had a harbor on the coast named Cissus. Erythrae was never a large city, but was renowned for its wine, goats, timber, and millstones, as well as its prophetic sibyls, Herophile and Athenais. The Erythraeans were for a considerable time subject to the supremacy of Athens. About 453 B.C. Erythrae, refusing to pay tribute, seceded from the Delian League. A garrison and a new government restored the union, but late in the Peloponnesian War, in 412 B.C. it revolted again with Chios and Clazomenae. Erythrai_amphitheater
GB96789. Bronze AE 17, SNG Munchen XX 339; SNG Cop 636; SNGvA 1956; SNG Tubingen IV 2868; BMC Ionia p. 129, 104; Kinns 214, gVF, a little off center, Ionia, Erythrai (north of Ildiri, Turkey) mint, weight 2.602g, maximum diameter 15.6mm, die axis 0o, magistrate Agasikles, c. 3rd century B.C.; obverse head of Herakles right, wearing Nemean Lion skin, scalp over head, forepaws tied at neck; reverse EPY / AΓAΣIKΛHΣ / ANTIΠA/TPOY (Erythrai, Agasikles, son of Antipatros) in four lines; ex CNG e-auction 463 (11 Mar 2020) lot 90; ex Philip Peck collection; SOLD




  






REFERENCES

Stoll, R. Herakles auf römischen Münzen. (Trier, 1999).
Voegtli, H. Bilder der Heldenepen in der kaiserzeitlichen griechischen Munzprägung. (Aesch, 1977).

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