Description: Ionia, Kolophon, ca. 50 BC. Pytheos, magistrate. ΠYΘEOΣ; Homer seated left, holding scroll in his left hand and propping his head on his right / KOΛOΦΩNIΩN; Apollo standing right, holding kithara in his left hand and phiale in his right.

Diameter: AE19 mm

Weight: 4,98 g

Grade: aVF/aVF

Attribution: Milne, Colophon, 177; SNG Cop. 186-187

Commentary: dark brown patina, some roughness

History: Kolophon was along with the island of Khios and the city of Smyrna cited as a possible birthplace of Homer.

Article Number: 053-03-03-44408