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IONIA, Klazomenai. Circa 190-30 BC. Æ (20mm, 8.88 g, 12h). Diademed male head right / Anaxagoras seated left on globe, right hand raised. SNG München 506; SNG Copenhagen 107. Fine, rough mottled brown surfaces.
Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 402 (26 July 2017), lot 216.
Klazomenai was the birthplace of the philosopher Anaxagoras, honored on the reverse of this coin. In his adulthood, he would move to Athens, where the thinker discussed his theories of cosmology and creation with such luminaries as Perikles and Euripedes.
Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 402 (26 July 2017), lot 216.
Klazomenai was the birthplace of the philosopher Anaxagoras, honored on the reverse of this coin. In his adulthood, he would move to Athens, where the thinker discussed his theories of cosmology and creation with such luminaries as Perikles and Euripedes.