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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 25903188, member: 87809&quot;]I didn&#039;t know about Tears of Cios until yesterday. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>A recent acquisition <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />:</p><p>AR Hemidrachm</p><p>Bithynia, Kios, ca. 345 – 315 BC, magistrate Agnonides</p><p>13.5 mm, 2.54 g, 12h</p><p><br /></p><p>HGC 7, 554 var. (unlisted magistrate); RG 4 var. (unlisted magistrate); BMC (Greek Coins, Pontus, Paphlagonia, Bithynia and the Kingdom of Bosporus, Pontus p. 130), 3 var. (different magistrate).</p><p>Magistrate unpublished for silver, but only known for contemporary gold staters of this type (RG 1).</p><p>For magistrates’ names see BMC (Greek Coins, Pontus, Paphlagonia, Bithynia and the Kingdom of Bosporus, Index IV. B. p. 240) which includes the magistrate’s name Agnonides.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: Laureate head of Apollo to right, KYA below neck</p><p>Rev.: Prow of galley traveling on waterline to left, ornamented with star on stern. Magistrate’s name AΓNΩNIΔHΣ above.</p><p><br /></p><p>While researcing the attribution, I found this, which I find fascinating:</p><p><br /></p><p>Kios, a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea, also known as Cios and Chios (Greek: Kίος) was located at the head of the gulf Cianus Sinus in the Propontis (now known as the Sea of Marmara).</p><p>&quot;Chios Gum Mastic&quot; also known as &quot;Tears of Chios&quot; is the dried resin of the mastic tree (pistacia lentiscus) which is in the same family as the pistachio. Although Pistacia species are widespread across the Mediterranean basin and the surrounding regions, mastiha (Greek: Μαστίχα) is produced only by the mastic trees grown on the southern part of Chios, where 24 villages (Mastichochoria in Greek) maintain today the region’s cultural heritage and participate in the resin’s production. These “tears” are piney-smelling, gummy mastic resin, which drips down from small slashes cut into the bark. Once wounded, the mastic trees release a sticky, gluey sap, which hardens into parchment-colored teardrops, then drop like small, fragrant pebbles to the ground, where harvesters collect them.</p><p>Pistacia lentiscus has been harvested on the island Chios for more than 2500 years. Chewing these little resin pearls they become a white chewing gum that has a pine and cedar flavor.</p><p>Its therapeutic properties have been known since Greek antiquity. There is now substantial evidence to suggest that mastiha demonstrates a plethora of favorable effects, mainly attributed to the anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidative properties of its components.</p><p><a href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/tears-of-chios" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/tears-of-chios" rel="nofollow">https://www.sullacoins.com/post/tears-of-chios</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Picture courtesy CNG:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1649863[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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