DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.45277#0595
SMYRNA—TEOS.
511
It is usual to attribute to this city a very early Phocaic gold stater,
bearing for type a Griffin’s head, and the curious inscr., IiOM, described
under Phocaea ; but this attribution is far from being satisfactory. There
are also small archaic electrum coins weighing about 9 grs., with a
griffin or a griffin’s head upon them which may belong to Teos. The
silver coins are as follows :—
Aeginetic Standard (?).
Before circ. b. c. 544.
Griffin, seated.
(B. M. Guide, Pl. II. 24.)
Id., with foreleg raised; in field,
symbol.
Id.
Quadripartite incuse square . . . .
JR Aeginetic stater 184 grs.
Id. . ■ JR ,, ,, ,, ,,
Id. . JR „ drachm. 90 grs.
The Griffin on the money of Teos appears to be symbolical of the
worship of Dionysos, whose temple in that city was one of the finest
specimens of the Ionic style of architecture in Greece. The earliest coins
of Abdera bear a very close resemblance to those of Teos, its mother city,
and the adoption by the former of the Griffin as a coin-type is a strong
point in favour of the early date of the Teian silver coinage.
Circ. B. c. 544-400.
IHT, TH, THI, THION or no inscr.
Griffin, seated, with fore-paw raised.
Symbols, various.
(B. M. Guide, Pl. XI. 33.)
Id.
Id.
Quadripartite incuse square; surface
often granulated. JR Aeginetic stater.
Id. ... JR Aeginetic dr. 42 grs.
Id. ... JR ,, i|ob. 22 grs.
It will be observed that all the early coins of Teos are apparently
adjusted to the Aeginetic standard. It was probably not until the close
of the fifth century that Teos brought her coinage into harmony with
those of Ephesus, Samos, Chios, and the rest of the Ionian states by the
adoption of the Phoenician weight.
Phoenician Standard. Circ. b.c. 400-300.
Griffin, seated, with fore-paw raised.
(Mion., Suppl., vi. Pl. VI, 2.)
Id. (Hunter, Pl. LVII. 20.)
Head of Maenad, thyrsos at her
shoulder. (Fox, II. 83.)
THIGN and magistrate’s name on the
broad bands dividing the incuse
square . Ad Phoenician dr. 55 grs.
THI Kantharos, and magistrate’s name
JR | dr. 27 grs.
THIIlN Lyre . . JR dr. 25 grs.
After circ. b. c. 200.
From the end of the fourth century until the beginning of the second,
Teos appears to have struck no money in silver. It is to about b.c. 190
that the Alexandrine tetradrachms (Muller, 1005-6) with THI and a
Griffin, a Kantharos, or a draped statue of Dionysos, belong.
511
It is usual to attribute to this city a very early Phocaic gold stater,
bearing for type a Griffin’s head, and the curious inscr., IiOM, described
under Phocaea ; but this attribution is far from being satisfactory. There
are also small archaic electrum coins weighing about 9 grs., with a
griffin or a griffin’s head upon them which may belong to Teos. The
silver coins are as follows :—
Aeginetic Standard (?).
Before circ. b. c. 544.
Griffin, seated.
(B. M. Guide, Pl. II. 24.)
Id., with foreleg raised; in field,
symbol.
Id.
Quadripartite incuse square . . . .
JR Aeginetic stater 184 grs.
Id. . ■ JR ,, ,, ,, ,,
Id. . JR „ drachm. 90 grs.
The Griffin on the money of Teos appears to be symbolical of the
worship of Dionysos, whose temple in that city was one of the finest
specimens of the Ionic style of architecture in Greece. The earliest coins
of Abdera bear a very close resemblance to those of Teos, its mother city,
and the adoption by the former of the Griffin as a coin-type is a strong
point in favour of the early date of the Teian silver coinage.
Circ. B. c. 544-400.
IHT, TH, THI, THION or no inscr.
Griffin, seated, with fore-paw raised.
Symbols, various.
(B. M. Guide, Pl. XI. 33.)
Id.
Id.
Quadripartite incuse square; surface
often granulated. JR Aeginetic stater.
Id. ... JR Aeginetic dr. 42 grs.
Id. ... JR ,, i|ob. 22 grs.
It will be observed that all the early coins of Teos are apparently
adjusted to the Aeginetic standard. It was probably not until the close
of the fifth century that Teos brought her coinage into harmony with
those of Ephesus, Samos, Chios, and the rest of the Ionian states by the
adoption of the Phoenician weight.
Phoenician Standard. Circ. b.c. 400-300.
Griffin, seated, with fore-paw raised.
(Mion., Suppl., vi. Pl. VI, 2.)
Id. (Hunter, Pl. LVII. 20.)
Head of Maenad, thyrsos at her
shoulder. (Fox, II. 83.)
THIGN and magistrate’s name on the
broad bands dividing the incuse
square . Ad Phoenician dr. 55 grs.
THI Kantharos, and magistrate’s name
JR | dr. 27 grs.
THIIlN Lyre . . JR dr. 25 grs.
After circ. b. c. 200.
From the end of the fourth century until the beginning of the second,
Teos appears to have struck no money in silver. It is to about b.c. 190
that the Alexandrine tetradrachms (Muller, 1005-6) with THI and a
Griffin, a Kantharos, or a draped statue of Dionysos, belong.