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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Ionia| > |Ephesos| > SH81556
Ionia, Persian Satraps, c. 340 - 334 B.C.
|Ephesos|, |Ionia,| |Persian| |Satraps,| |c.| |340| |-| |334| |B.C.|, Ephesus was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League on the west coast of Anatolia. The city was famed for the Temple of Artemis (completed around 550 B.C.), one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Ephesus was one of the seven churches of Asia that are cited in the Book of Revelation. The Gospel of John may have been written here.
SH81556. Bronze unit, Johnston, "The Earliest Preserved Greek Map: A New Ionian Coin Type," JHS (1967), 1-4; BMC Ionia p. 324, 7, VF, Ephesos (near Selcuk, Turkey) mint, weight 1.879g, maximum diameter 14.7mm, obverse king kneeling right, holding spear and drawing bow, B A behind; reverse irregular raised patterns within incuse square, possibly a relief map of hinterland of Ephesos?; rare; SOLD











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