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Ionia, Smyrna Æ Homereion. Circa 145-125 BC. Arridaios, magistrate. Laureate head of Apollo right / Homer seated left, holding scroll, transverse sceptre behind; ZMYPNAIΩN to right, APPIΔAIOΣ and monogram to left. BMC 87-8; Milne, Autonomous 182b. 5.87g, 21mm, 12h.
Very Fine; attractive dark brown patina.
From the collection of G.M.R.H;
Privately purchased from Bank Leu in 1981, from the old stock of Jacob Hirsch.
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; attractive dark brown patina.
From the collection of G.M.R.H;
Privately purchased from Bank Leu in 1981, from the old stock of Jacob Hirsch.
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).