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Ionia, Smyrna Æ Homereion. Circa 145-125 BC. Archias Phan[...], magistrate. Laureate head of Apollo to right / Homer seated to left, holding scroll, transverse sceptre behind; ZMYPNAI[ΩN] to right, APXIAΣ and monogram to left. Milne, Autonomous 169; SNG Copenhagen 1133. 9.00g, 21mm, 11h.
Near Very Fine. A rare magistrate.
Auctioned in association with and on behalf of Numismática Lucernae, Jaén.
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).
Near Very Fine. A rare magistrate.
Auctioned in association with and on behalf of Numismática Lucernae, Jaén.
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).