★ Airai of Ionia ★

Ionia. Airai circa 375-350 BC.
Bronze Æ

13 mm., 1,70 g.

Laureate head of Apollo left / AIPAIΩN, owl standing right, head facing, astragalos to right.

nearly very fine

Amandry, Monnaie pp.11-2; SNG Copenhagen -; Imhoof-Blumer, Kleinasiatische Münzen 1901, Supplement pg. 512, 1.

Airai, a tiny Greek city with harbor (Pseudo Scylax, Periplous 98) is only known from this coin. Airai existed only for a very short time before being conquered by their neighbours from Teos in circa 370 BC and disappearing