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Ionia, Magnesia ad Maeandrum AR Tetartemorion. Time of Archepolis, circa 459 BC. Laureate and bearded male head to right / Eagle flying to right, AP monogram below(?), within linear square border; all within shallow incuse square. Nollé & Wenninger 2A; Leu 16, 931 (hammer: CHF 220). 1.00g, 10mm.
Near Very Fine. Very Rare in this denomination.
From a private Scandinavian collection.
Archepolis was the son of the Athenian Themistokles, who was perhaps the most important, and certainly one of the most powerful political figures in early fifth century Athens. He persuaded the Athenians to use the newly found wealth from the silver mines of Laurion to build a navy, essential to their defeat of the Persians a short time later. Sometime in the early 460s BC, Themistokles was ostracised. He fled to Asia Minor, where he was well received by the Persian king, who made him the governor of Magnesia on the Maeander and granted him the income of three cities – Lampsakos, Magnesia, and Myos.
Near Very Fine. Very Rare in this denomination.
From a private Scandinavian collection.
Archepolis was the son of the Athenian Themistokles, who was perhaps the most important, and certainly one of the most powerful political figures in early fifth century Athens. He persuaded the Athenians to use the newly found wealth from the silver mines of Laurion to build a navy, essential to their defeat of the Persians a short time later. Sometime in the early 460s BC, Themistokles was ostracised. He fled to Asia Minor, where he was well received by the Persian king, who made him the governor of Magnesia on the Maeander and granted him the income of three cities – Lampsakos, Magnesia, and Myos.