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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 1792599, member: 56859&quot;]I&#039;ve been trying to buy coins with winged boars and finally got my first one. Yeah, it&#039;s tiny. Yeah, it&#039;s porous. Yeah, it cost $30,944.20* But it&#039;s a start for my Pigasus collection!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="2">*calculated by the pound ;-)</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="2">[ATTACH=full]289566[/ATTACH]</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b><font size="3"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #272727">IONIA, Klazomenai. </span></font></font></b><font size="3"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #272727">Circa 499-494 BC. AR Diobol (9mm, 1.18 g). Forepart of winged boar left / Incuse square. Cf. BMC 9-10 (drachm); cf. Traité I 488 (drachm). VF, toned, porous. Very rare with boar left, apparently unpublished as a diobol.</span></font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #272727"><i>From the Daniel Koppersmith Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 256 (25 May 2011), lot 123.</i></span></font></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="3"><span style="color: #272727"><font size="4"><font face="georgia"><span style="color: #000000">Ionia is modern-day western Turkey, on the Aegean sea. Klazomenai (alt. Clazomenae) apparently had large boars and there are myths about a winged boar/sow. </span></font></font></span></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="georgia"><font size="4"><span style="color: #272727">From </span></font></font><font size="3"><font face="georgia"><span style="color: #272727"><a href="http://www.theoi.com/Ther/HusKlazomenaios.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.theoi.com/Ther/HusKlazomenaios.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.theoi.com/Ther/HusKlazomenaios.html</a></span></font></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: #000000">THE HUS KLAZOMENAIOS was a gigantic winged sow which terrorized the Greek town of Klazomenai in Ionia, Asia Minor.</span></font></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: #000000"><i>Aelian, On Animals 12. 38 (trans. Scholfield) (Greek natural history C2nd A.D.) :</i></span></font></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: #000000">&quot;I have heard that on Klazomenai [and island west of Smyrna] there was a Sow with wings, and it ravaged the territory of Klazomenai. And Artemon records this in his Annals of Klazomenai. That is why there is a spot named and celebrated as `The Place of the Winged Sow,’ and it is famous. But if anyone regards this as myth, let him do so.&quot;</span></font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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