Description: Archaios Numismatics __________________________________________ Description:Greek Bronze Coin of Leukai (previously sold as Klazomenai) in Ionia circa 350-300 BC. Obverse: Laureate Head of Apollo Left Reverse: Swan standing Left with wings spread and head back right preening wing feathers; possible uncertain symbol before; Ethnic off flan. Mint: Leukai, Ionia Size: 10 mm Weight: 1.29 g Ref: SNG Cop 800; cf CNG 199,209 Inv: 51.22 Condition: aVF. As always, Use the images as your judge as grading is subjective. Notes: Leukai (Leuce or Leucae), was an ancient town in Ionia on the north side of the Gulf of Smyrna. The town was opposite Clazomenae (Klazomenai) and was founded B.C. 352 by the Persian admiral Tachos. It soon afterwards fell into the hands of the Clazomenians, to whose influence the Swan type bears witness. Klazomenai (Clazomenae) stood partly on the mainland and partly on a small island on the southern shore of the Gulf of Smyrna. The distinctive badge of the city appears from the later inscribed coins to have been a winged boar. Aelian relates, on the authority of Artemon, that such a monster once infested the Clazomenian territory. Hence numerous coins of this type, though without inscriptions, are presumed to be of Clazomenian origin. Clazomenae is therefore classed among the cities which took part in the early electrum currency of the sixth century B.C. Circ. B.C. 387-301, from the Peace of Antalcidas to the battle of Ipsus, The more important cities on the west coast of Asia Minor such as Clazomenae began to strike money in great abundance. The bronze coins of this period have usually helmeted heads of Athena in profile or facing, and on the reverses a ram’s head or a ram recumbent or standing. The swan is the characteristic reverse-type of the finest coins of Clazomenae, and it is one of the many symbols of Apollo. It has been suggested that the name of Clazomenae may have been derived from the plaintive notes of these birds which were said to abound in the Delta of the Hermus. Excerpts From Head, Hist.Num; Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Composition: Bronze
Historical Period: Greek (450 BC-100 AD)
Era: Ancient
