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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Ionia| > |Colophon| > GB98895
Kolophon, Ionia, 330 - 285 B.C.
|Colophon|, |Kolophon,| |Ionia,| |330| |-| |285| |B.C.|, After the death of Alexander the Great, Perdiccas expelled the Athenian settlers on Samos to Kolophon. Antigonus controlled Kolophon until general Prepelaus sized the area for Lysimachus in 302 B.C. Lysimachus destroyed Kolophon (and Lebedos) and forced the survivors to emigrate to Ephesos, c. 285 B.C. After Lysimachus' death in 281, Kolophon was reestablished, but it never fully recovered.
GB98895. Bronze dichalkon, Milne Kolophon 103 ff. var.; SNG Cop 151 var.; Milne Kolophon 105(c) var.; BMC Ionia p. 38, 23 var.; SNGvA 2011 var. (none with this magistrate), aVF, green patina, porosity/pitting, Kolophon (near Degirmendere Fev, Turkey) mint, weight 2.246g, maximum diameter 14.1mm, die axis 0o, 330 - 285 B.C.; obverse laureate head of Apollo right, hair in loose locks; reverse forepart of galloping bridled horse right, ΔIONYΣATH (or similar, magistrate's name) upward on left, KOΛ below; SOLD




  







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