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Ephesos. Phanes, circa 625-600 BC. Trite (Electrum, 14 mm, 4.72 g). ΦΑΝΕΟΣ (retrograde in archaic letters) Stag grazing to right, with its body ornamented with a lozenge pattern reminiscent of the filling ornaments found on contemporary East Greek painted pottery. Rev. Two irregular square incuses, each ornamented with raised intersecting lines. ACGC 54. Fischer-Bossert Phanes 6h (this coin). Kraay & Hirmer 585. SNG München 14. Weidauer 40. Very rare. Lightly toned and very clearly struck - a wonderful example. Good very fine.
Selections from an Important American Collection. Ex Gemini XIII, 6 April 2017, 65, and from the collection of Jonathan Rosen as of 2012.
This electrum third stater comes from the first series of coins ever to bear a personal name – here that of an otherwise unknown Phanes. The stag was the totem animal of Artemis, the great goddess of Ephesos: whether Phanes was an actual official of the sanctuary, or just a prominent merchant or banker who was responsible for the coins and who, out of piety, honored the goddess by using her familiar animal as the type, is unknown.
Ephesos. Phanes, circa 625-600 BC. Trite (Electrum, 14 mm, 4.72 g). ΦΑΝΕΟΣ (retrograde in archaic letters) Stag grazing to right, with its body ornamented with a lozenge pattern reminiscent of the filling ornaments found on contemporary East Greek painted pottery. Rev. Two irregular square incuses, each ornamented with raised intersecting lines. ACGC 54. Fischer-Bossert Phanes 6h (this coin). Kraay & Hirmer 585. SNG München 14. Weidauer 40. Very rare. Lightly toned and very clearly struck - a wonderful example. Good very fine.
Selections from an Important American Collection. Ex Gemini XIII, 6 April 2017, 65, and from the collection of Jonathan Rosen as of 2012.
This electrum third stater comes from the first series of coins ever to bear a personal name – here that of an otherwise unknown Phanes. The stag was the totem animal of Artemis, the great goddess of Ephesos: whether Phanes was an actual official of the sanctuary, or just a prominent merchant or banker who was responsible for the coins and who, out of piety, honored the goddess by using her familiar animal as the type, is unknown.