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ISLANDS off SICILY, Lipara. Circa 440-420 BC. Æ Tetras or Trionkion (30mm, 24.09 g). Head of Aiolos right, wearing pileos / Three pellets (mark of value); ΛIΠAPAION around. Zagami 44; Manganaro, Vittoria 51–100; CNS 5/4 = SNG Copenhagen 1086 (same dies); HGC 2, 1762; SNG Morcom –; SNG München 1680; BMC 7–10; Virzi 2086 and 2088; MMAG 76, lot 263 (same dies); SKA 1, lot 60 (same dies); Sternberg XVIII, lot 48 (same dies). Attractive olive green patina, light cleaning marks on obverse. Near EF. Exceptional for issue.
From the John Morcom Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 9 (16 April 1996), lot 278.
Aiolos was the god of the winds in Greek mythology. He was associated with the group of islands between Sicily and Italy, which were appropriately named the Aiolian Islands, of which Lipara was the largest and most important. In fact, Aiolos himself supposedly resided on the island of Lipara, hence his representation of their coins.
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