IONIA. Klazomenai (?). Circa 550-500 BC. Hekte (Electrum, 10 mm, 2.35 g), Milesian standard. Head of a bull to right.
Rev. Quadripartite incuse square. Jameson 1643 (
same obverse die, as 'uncertain'). R. Jameson: Trouvaille de Vourla. Monnaies grecques des VIe et Ve siècles, in: RN 1911, pl. I, 9 (
this coin). Rosen 266 (
same obverse die, as 'Asia Minor uncertain'). SNG von Aulock 7799 (
same dies, as 'uncertain'). U. Wartenberg: Was there an Ionian Revolt Coinage? Monetary Patterns in the Late Archaic Period, in: White Gold, pp. 585-591. Very rare and lightly toned. A few light marks and struck from a worn reverse die
, otherwise, good very fine.
From a West German collection, formed since the 1960s, and from the 1910 Vourla Hoard (IGCH 1167).
U. Wartenberg has recently argued in favor of assigning the very rare bull head hektai from the Vourla Hoard to Klazomenai, the place where the coins were originally found together with 12 didrachms from the same city.
