KOLOPHON IONIA SILVER HEMIOBOL________Head of Apollo_________HOMER'S BIRTHPLACE

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FRASCATIUS ANCIENTS
A BEAUTIFUL SILVER DIOBOL OF KOLOPHON IONIA FROM 530 - 500 BC.
POSSIBLE BIRTHPLACE OF HOMER
MAY BE THE SMALLEST COIN IN YOUR COLLECTION
THE SIZE IS 6.5 MM AND 0.33 GRAMS.
SNG Kayhan 342
OBVERSE – Head of Apollo left
REVERSE – Incuse punch
Kolophon was a city in the region of Lydia in antiquity dating from about the turn of the first millennium-BC. It was likely one the oldest of the twelve Ionian League cities, between Lebedos (120 stadia to the west) and Ephesus (to its south) and its ruins are in the eponymously named modern region of Ionia.
In Greek antiquity two sons of Codrus, King of Athens, established a colony there. It was the birthplace of the philosopher Xenophanes and the poet Mimnermus.
Kolophon was the strongest of the Ionian cities and renowned both for its cavalry and for the inhabitants' luxurious lifestyle, until Gyges of Lydia conquered it in the 7th century BC. Kolophon then went into decline and was eclipsed by neighbouring Ephesus and by the rising naval power of Ionia, Miletus.
After the death of Alexander the Great, Perdiccas expelled the Athenian settlers on Samos to Kolophon, including the family of Epicurus, who joined them there after completing his military service.
In the 3rd century BC, it was destroyed by Lysimachus—a Macedonian officer, one of the successors (Diadochi) of Alexander the Great, later a king (306 BCE) in Thrace and Asia Minor, during the same era when he nearly destroyed (and did depopulate by forced expulsion) the neighboring Ionian League city of Lebedos.
Additionally, the city, as a major location on the Ionic mainland, was cited as a possible home or birthplace for Homer.
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