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Ionia, Kolophon, Poet Homer and Apollo, Rare!

Æ 19mm/5.2gm      Pytheos, magistrate, struck ca. 50 BC

Con/ Minor roughness, otherwise, Good Very Fine. Dark green patina with complete legends. A beautiful example of this popular issue with a superb rendering of Homer and Apollo.

Obv/ ΠYΘEOΣ; The Poet Homer seated left, holding scroll in his left hand and propping his head on his right.

Rev/ KOΛOΦΩNIΩN; Apollo standing right, holding kithara in his left hand and phiale in his right.

Ref/ Kinns 177, Milne, Colophon, 177, SNG Copenhagen 186-187.