Description: Ionia, Magnesia ad Meandrum, ca 459 BC. AR Trihemiobol (Obol?). Archepolis, son of Themistokles. Bearded male head right / Eagle flying right within linear square.

Diameter: AR10 mm

Weight: 0,7 g

Grade: F/F

Attribution: Nollé-Wenninger, JNG A 2a

Commentary: rare; brown-greyish patina, soft features

History: Themistokles (524 - 459 BC), an architect of the Greek victory at Salamis (480 BC), was expelled from Athens and entered the service of the Persian king Artaxerxes I, who made him governor of Magnesia, where Temistokles lived with his family.

Article Number: 024-04-01-41652