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Ionia. Uncertain Mint. c. 520 BC. EL Hecte (Milesian standard), 2.30g. Obv: Eagle standing left with head reverted. Rx: Quadripartite incuse square. Cf. SNG Aulock 7778; Boston 1808; BMC Ionia pl. I, 23 (staters); MMAG 72 (1987), lot 144 (trite). EF.
Ex Jonathan Rosen Collection.
This type belongs to a group of issues that have been dated to the Ionian Revolt 500-494 BC on the authority of an article by Percy Gardner (JHS 1911). The majority of the types concerned, however, must be dated to c. 530/20 BC, and cannot be connected with any Greek alliance. Rather they indicate the prosperity of Ionia under the early Persian kings Cyrus and Darius I, the golden age that was unnecessarily brought to an end by the ambitions of the tyrant of Miletos, Aristagoras, who instigated the Ionian rebellion. The masterly design and fabric of this coin reminds us of the age of the archaic poets and Ionian philosophers.
Ex Jonathan Rosen Collection.
This type belongs to a group of issues that have been dated to the Ionian Revolt 500-494 BC on the authority of an article by Percy Gardner (JHS 1911). The majority of the types concerned, however, must be dated to c. 530/20 BC, and cannot be connected with any Greek alliance. Rather they indicate the prosperity of Ionia under the early Persian kings Cyrus and Darius I, the golden age that was unnecessarily brought to an end by the ambitions of the tyrant of Miletos, Aristagoras, who instigated the Ionian rebellion. The masterly design and fabric of this coin reminds us of the age of the archaic poets and Ionian philosophers.