Tetradrachm - Athenagores

Features

Issuer Chios (Ionia)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 380 BC - 350 BC
Value Tetradrachm (4)
Currency Drachm
Composition Silver
Weight 14.75 g
Diameter 18.5 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered, incuse
Orientation Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
148444
References HGC 6# 1116,
Oliver D. Hoover; 2010. The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series / Volume 6. Handbook of Coins of the Islands : Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean, and Carpathian Seas (excluding Crete and Cyprus) : Sixth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania - London, United Kingdom.
Mavrogordato# 49 var.
John Mavrogordato; 1918. A chronological arrangement of the coins of Chios. Frederick Hall, Oxford.

Obverse

Sphinx seated left, to the left, a grape bunch above an amphora and all on shallow convex surface.

Reverse

Quadripartite incuse square, with striated quarters and thick bands and with the name of the magistrate on horizontal band

Script: Greek

Lettering: AΘHNAΓOPHΣ

Translation: Athenagores, magistrate

Mint

Chios, Ionia, modern-day Island of Chios, Greece

Comments

Mavrogordato 49 (unlisted magistrate); Pixodarus 1.

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Pictures Sale Date Grade Sold price
Picture 1 of a sold Tetradrachm - Athenagores
CNG
Auction 105
Lot 353
Internet Archive
10 May 2017 VF USD 4750.00
(+ buyer's premium)
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