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Ionia, Smyrna Æ21. Circa 115-75 BC. Homereia type. Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath / Homer seated left, holding scroll; sceptre behind; ZMYPNAIΩN to right, MHTPOΔΩPOΣ [Π]AΣIKPAT[OY] to left. BMC 106. 9.57g, 21mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Rare.
Ex Classical Numismatic Group 244, 10 November 2010, lot 576 (part of).
Strabo mentions specifically this issue of bronze coinage from Smyrna when, discussing the city, he says "there is also a library; and the 'Homereum', a quadrangular portico containing a shrine and wooden statue of Homer; for the Smyrnaeans also lay especial claim to the poet and indeed a bronze coin of theirs is called a Homereum" (Strabo, Geographica XIV, I.37, transl. by H.C. Jones, The Geography of Strabo, VI [Loeb, 1960], pp. 245-247).
Very Fine. Rare.
Ex Classical Numismatic Group 244, 10 November 2010, lot 576 (part of).
Strabo mentions specifically this issue of bronze coinage from Smyrna when, discussing the city, he says "there is also a library; and the 'Homereum', a quadrangular portico containing a shrine and wooden statue of Homer; for the Smyrnaeans also lay especial claim to the poet and indeed a bronze coin of theirs is called a Homereum" (Strabo, Geographica XIV, I.37, transl. by H.C. Jones, The Geography of Strabo, VI [Loeb, 1960], pp. 245-247).