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<p>[QUOTE="PeteB, post: 7289278, member: 99412"]Jochen wrote:</p><p>"Abdera, a Ionian foundation, probably of Teos, was a provincial city of the province of Macedonia since 341 BC. It was the birthplay of the important Pre-Socratic natural philosopher Demokritos who together with his teacher Leukippos was the inventor of the theory of atoms. Protagoras and Anaxarchos too came from here and the poet Anakreon of Teos settled here."</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1276146[/ATTACH] </p><p>IONIA, Teos. Time of Marcus Aurelius. Æ (25mm, 12.84 gm, 7h).</p><p>Obv: ΤƐΩС, turreted and draped bust of youthful Dionysus as the Tyche, r.; to l., thyrsus. Rev: CTP ACKΛΕΠΙΑΔΟΥ, <b>Anakreon</b> seated, r., playing lyre.</p><p>BMC__; SNG Cop__; von Aulock__; RPC IV 2780 (temporary): Two examples known: B Löbb and Frank L. Kovacs (ex private coll. Marcel Burstein = Lindgren I, 578A), This coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="PeteB, post: 7289278, member: 99412"]Jochen wrote: "Abdera, a Ionian foundation, probably of Teos, was a provincial city of the province of Macedonia since 341 BC. It was the birthplay of the important Pre-Socratic natural philosopher Demokritos who together with his teacher Leukippos was the inventor of the theory of atoms. Protagoras and Anaxarchos too came from here and the poet Anakreon of Teos settled here." [ATTACH=full]1276146[/ATTACH] IONIA, Teos. Time of Marcus Aurelius. Æ (25mm, 12.84 gm, 7h). Obv: ΤƐΩС, turreted and draped bust of youthful Dionysus as the Tyche, r.; to l., thyrsus. Rev: CTP ACKΛΕΠΙΑΔΟΥ, [B]Anakreon[/B] seated, r., playing lyre. BMC__; SNG Cop__; von Aulock__; RPC IV 2780 (temporary): Two examples known: B Löbb and Frank L. Kovacs (ex private coll. Marcel Burstein = Lindgren I, 578A), This coin.[/QUOTE]
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