Description: Ionia, Ephesos, 4th century BC. Female head left / E-Φ; bee.

Diameter: AE10 mm

Weight: 1,36 g

Grade: VF/gVF

Attribution: SNG Cop 256; SNG von Aulock 1839

Commentary: attractive patina with bronze highlights and contrasting deposits, good details, reverse slightly off-center

History: In 334 BC after defeating the Persians at Granikos Alexander the Great entered the city and offered to meet all expenditures for the construction of the Temple of Artemis which had burned down on the night when he was born - the Ephesians refused.

Article Number: 019-01-07-41652