Ancient Greek City States Of Ionia, Chalkon Bronze Coin, Kolophon Circa 350 BCE With God Apollo And Lyre Kithara, Fractional Drachm
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Dimensions, Diameter 11mm, All measurements are approximate. Sold As Pictured. Provenance, Private Collector, Denmark, Acquired By tc&tc Private Collector in NYC 2026.
Ancient Greek City States Of Ionia, West Asia Minor, Kolophon, Standard Circulation Coin, Circa 389 To 350 BCE. Value Of A Chalkon 1/48 Of A Greek Drachm. Composition, Bronze. Shape Round But Irregular. Hammered. Obverse With Head Of God Apollo Facing Right, Bound With Taenia, Hair In Slightly Waved Locks. Reverse With Kithara Lyre In Linear Square, Lettering Around And Outside The Square. Script In Greek With Name Of The City. Excellent Condition.
Colophon, Ancient Greek Word Romanized As Kolophon, Was An Ancient City In Ionia. Founded Around The End Of The 2nd Millennium BCE At The West Coast Of Asia Minor. It Was Likely One Of The Oldest Of The Twelve Cities Of The Ionian League. The City's Name Comes From The Word "Summit", As It Was Sited Along A Ridgeline. The Term Colophony For Rosin Comes From The Term Colophonia Resina, A Resin From The Pine Trees Of Colophon, Which Was Highly Valued For Increasing Friction Of The Bow Hairs Of Stringed Musical Instruments.
The Ancient Greek City Of Kolophon In Ionia Is Best Known In Numismatics For Striking Some Of The Smallest Silver Denominations In Antiquity (e.g., Tetartemorioi). Struck From The 6th To 4th Centuries BCE, Their Signature Coins Feature The Laureate Head Of Apollo On The Obverse And A Lyre, Horse, Or Te Monogram On The Reverse.
The First Coinage Of Kolophon Started Around 530 BCE Consisting Of Only Silver Fractions: Tetartemoria, Hemiobols And Obols, And In Much Less Amount Electron Stater Fractions. All Coinage Depict Apollo On The Obverse And An Incuse Square On The Reverse. Apollo Was Important At Kolophon Since There Was An Greek Sanctuary Dedicated To Apollo At Klarios. // Ancient Numismatics And Collectibles, Ancient Mediterranean History, Iron Age Coinages, Greece, Italy, Antique Bronze Coins, Classic European Antiquities, Small Coins. // Disclaimer: Read The Description And Watch Carefully The Images Provided. Ask Any Questions Before You Place A Purchase. We Do Our Best For Identifying And Describing The Items, However We Are No Experts In Every Field. We Offer In House Shipping But You Are Free To Arrange Your Own Shipping Method. If You Are The Winning Bidder You Are Agreeing To All Our Terms Including The Acceptance That All Sales Are Final. Allure Auctioneers Is A Project ByBoboNYC Inc, Manhattan NYC, 2026. We Stand Against The Use Of Artificial Intelligence AI Tools On eCommerce. Be Human!
Historic Numismatic Pieces, Ancient Coins From The Private Collection Of The Cuban Architect Conrado Maleta
VERY RARE, Ancient Kingdom Of The Cimmerian Bosporus, Chalkon Bronze Coin, Circa 360 BCE. Bosporan Drachm, God Apollo And Butting Bull
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Dimensions, Diameter 7 mm, All measurements are approximate. Sold As Pictured.
Provenance, Private Collector, Denmark, Acquired By tc&tc Private Collector in NYC 2026.
Issuer, Bosporan Kingdom, Also Known As Kingdom Of The Cimmerian Bosporus. Standard Circulation Coin, Circa 360 BCE To 340 BCE. Value Of A Chalkon 1/48 Of A Drachm. Composition, Bronze. Shape Round But Irregular. Hammered. Obverse With Head Of God Apollo Facing To The Left. Reverse With Bull Butting Right; Script In Greek, With Lettering: ΘΕΟΔΟ, Translation: Theodosia (City Of). Mint Place: Theodosia, Tauric Chersonesus Modern Day Feodosiya In Ukraine. References, SNG Stancomb. SNG BM Black Sea. Frolova Fruhe Type IV. Anokhin 940. MacDonald 95. Anokhin Bosporos 82. //
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Similar Auctioned CNG 84, Lot 569 With Estimate Of $200 usd And Hammer Price Of $800 usd Not Included Buyers Fees. Described as: extremely rare, only two examples known to Frolova (both in the Hermitage). From the Alex Shubs Collection. Both of the Hermitage coins are fairly worn on the obverse, so the identity of the deity is uncertain; Frolova identifies him as Herakles, while MacDonald posits that it is Apollo (and laureate). Unfortunately, this example cannot clarify the matter.
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Ancient Greek Cities Of Phrygia, Chalkon Bronze Coin, Apameia Circa 80 BCE With Marsyas Playing Flute And Turreted Tyche, Fractional Drachm
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Dimensions, Diameter 15 mm, All measurements are approximate. Sold As Pictured.
Provenance, Private Collector, Denmark, Acquired By tc&tc Private Collector in NYC 2026.
Ancient Greek City States Of Phrygia, West Asia Minor, Apameia, Standard Circulation Coin, Circa 80 To 40 BCE. Value Of A Chalkon 1/48 Of A Greek Drachm. Composition, Bronze. Shape Round But Irregular. Hammered.
Obverse With Turreted Head Of Turreted Tyche Or Maybe Goddess Artemis Facing Right, Bow And Quiver Over Shoulder. Reverse With Marsyas Walking Right On Maeander Pattern, Playing Flute Musical Instrument, Script In Greek At Both Sides, Right And Left With Legend Apameia Kefiso Skau. Mint At Apamea Cibotus. References, SNG Copenhagen 193, SNG von Aulock 3472, BMC Greek 74, NGC 7 674avar. //
Apamea Cibotus, Apamea Ad Maeandrum (On The Maeander), Apamea Or Apameia (Ancient Greek: Ἀπάμεια, Romanized: Apámeia, Ancient Greek: Κιβωτός, Romanized: Kibōtós) Was An Ancient City In Anatolia Founded In The 3rd Century BCE By Antiochus I Soter, Who Named It After His Mother Apama. It Was In Hellenistic Phrygia But Became Part Of The Roman Province Of Pisidia. It Was Near, But On Lower Ground Than Celaenae (Kelainai).
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It was a dark and starless night, and the Pommes still under the rule of Kaŋa Pome, "The Good Pomme Ruler", had been reduced by over half. Many years prior, Pommekind had welcomed the newly arrived Outsider species Humankind with open arms, and Humanity responded by decimating them in an act of genocide. It was only through the actions of Kaŋa Pome that its people survived. However, they were forced to flee out of the Pommeverses entirely, and hid out in a world on its distant outskirts.
It only got worse when the Visitors came. Though Kaŋa Pome had tried to ignore them, their very arrival seemed to radicalize the Cilda Koŋe, its two children. One of them, Prama Tride, "The Promise of Much Tradition", (now to be labeled “Kaŋa Dure”, "The Disrespectful Ruler"), had caused a schism and stolen away many Pommes. The other, Prama Piwe, "The Promise of Much Power" (now to be labeled “Kaŋa Durke”, "The Dark Ruler", though it labled itself “Kaŋa Trofe”, "The True Ruler"), had become a god of darkness and corrupted the minds of many other Pommes (as well as some mortals). Those Pommes that remained were now in danger of being eradicated, for they discovered that their hidden settlement of Satla Pome just so happened to be in the world the Humans came from.
Now forced to abandon their hideaway, they eventually set up camp at the base of a grassy hill by the shore. As its now modest amount of people slept in their modest tents, Kaŋa Pome climbed to the top and set up some sacred fires. Being the leader of the ones who ultimately created the Pommeverses in the first place, it had never wanted to ask for help from anyone, even when its people were being destroyed. But now, it felt it had no choice but to call upon the ones who lived in the Void between the worlds, as it felt that even with the risk of entering an inconceivable environment, the Void was the safest place for Pommekind. So it looked into the flames and sang:
“Creatures of the Void,
I am the Broken King.
The Pommes are in grave danger.
Please help.”
As it repeated its chant, a strange green glow began to slowly appear from a rift in the sky.
“707 years I’ve been alive, and this is the first I’ve heard you ask for help.”
At this statement, Kaŋa Pome startled, and looked up to see a great Void Demon towering over it. The Demon’s face somewhat resembled a bell, with its mouth being two lines crossing each other in a x shape, with either end of the lines being a circle. It had four eyes, each one sat between two of the circles on the mouth. Four flaps emerged from the back of its head. Its serpentine body, which meandered into the distance not unlike a river, was composed of many segments, each with four arms set around it in a circle.
“Chalkon?” Kaŋa Pome asked, “Is that you?”
“Hello, Grandparent.”
“Why have you come here? I was certain you’d follow in your creator’s footsteps!”
“Prama Piwe wanted nothing more to do with me, so as soon as it became Kaŋa Durke and started its cult, I immediately went to search for the remaining Pommes. I found Pom--, sorry, Prama Tride’s group in the world they created but they said they’d rather stay where they are. It did point me toward where it thought you would be. Said you might need some shelter.”
Kaŋa Pome was stunned. “Surely you’re mistaken, Chalkon? Kaŋa Dure disrespected me by giving itself a definite name instead of just using its variable labels. AND it charmed away a great many of my subjects with its radicalism! Why then, would it turn around and do something like THIS? It makes no sense!”
“Are you still willing to accept my help?”
“It’s not your fault that you encountered my rebellious child first. What do you propose?”
Chalkon waved its front arms and rocked its head back and forth (its version of smiling), “You might not know this, but when a Void Demon grows large enough, it can no longer survive by simply eating. So it builds a world within its body, forming rocks, mountains, rivers, and even cities as it grows, and it allows many plants and animals to live, grow, and die within it.”
“And it’s this process of decay that allows larger Demons to gain sustenance?”
“I myself have been doing so for the past half-century.”
“So you’re offering to let us take up residence within you?”
“Indeed. I was actually making a little settlement in my head for my creator and its companions to reside in. Now it won’t go to waste.”
“So our new Satla Pome is just behind that big mouth?”
“Yes, but this mouth can’t reach it. You’ll have to use the other one.”
The following morning, the encamped Pommes awoke to the sound of Kaŋa Pome playing the beckoning trumpet. It stood in front of the mouth of what appeared to be a giant, long, glowing tube hovering over the ocean.
“My subjects!” it said, “The Void Demon Chalkon has graciously allowed us to live in the village it made inside of itself. Our new Satla Pome is rather far within it, so Chalkon has prepared a vessel which should get us there in only a few hours!”
The Pommes were overjoyed at this news, and they started packing up their belongings and entering the Demon. The inside of Chalkon was lush and green, even on the walls and ceiling. The vessel was a floating ship, manned by someone with a long body, five sets of four arms, and a bell-like face, that hung from the end of an impossibly long pole that seemed to disappear within the creature. As the Pommes boarded, one of the youngest; Calda Fregme, "The Child of the Reedtalker"; approached the captain.
“Who’re you?”
“The Avatar of Chalkon.”
“What’s that?”
“When a Void Demon grows big enough, it can create a smaller version of itself within the world of its body.”
“So are you different from the big guy?”
“Not so, little one. A Demon’s Avatar is a part of its body like any other. I can’t go too far from the main body without dissipating back into it.” It looked at the gathered Pommes. “I think that’s everybody.”
So the vessel set off, pulled by the ever retracting pole, to their new home.
