Tetradrachm - Herodotos

Features

Issuer	Chios (Ionia)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	380 BC - 350 BC
Value	Tetradrachm (4)
Currency	Chian-Rhodian drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	15.27 g
Diameter	23 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered, Incuse
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 401636
References	Pixodarus# 18 Richard Ashton, Philip Kinns, Koray Konuk, Andrew R. Meadows; 2002. “The Pixodarus Hoard”, Coin hoards, Volume IX: Greek hoards, pages 159-243. , HGC 6# 1116 Oliver D. Hoover; 2010. Handbook of Coins of the Islands / Volume 6: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean, and Carpathian Seas (excluding Crete and Cyprus) : Sixth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States / London, United Kingdom.

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Obverse

Sphinx seated left, to the left, a grape bunch above an amphora and all on shallow convex surface.

Reverse

Quadripartite incuse square, with striated quarters and thick bands and with the name of the magistrate on horizontal band.

Script: Greek

Lettering: HPOΔOTOΣ

Translation: Herodotos

Mint

Chios, Ionia, modern-day Island of Chios, Greece

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (380 BC - 350 BC)							$ 7900	$ 20 000

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Gorny & Mosch Auction 273 Lot 201	19 Nov 2020	XF	USD 25 550.20 (EUR 22 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Gorny & Mosch GmbH Giessener Münzhandlung
	Gorny & Mosch Auction 244 Lot 314	6 Mar 2017	XF	USD 10 452.35 (EUR 9000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Leu, Auction 25, Zurich 1980, 150
© Gorny & Mosch GmbH Giessener Münzhandlung
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Roma Numismatics Auction XXIX Lot 171	9 Nov 2023	VF	USD 5101.04 (GBP 3800.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Roma Numismatics Limited
	H. D. Rauch Auction 115 Lot 124	8 Dec 2022	VF	USD 8129.61 (EUR 7000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© H. D. Rauch
	H. D. Rauch Auction 111 Lot 527	3 Dec 2020	VF	USD 8129.61 (EUR 7000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© H. D. Rauch
	CNG Triton XXII Lot 255	8 Jan 2019	VF	USD 7500.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.