Balcer

Balcer, J. "The Early Coinage of Teos." in Schweizerische Numismatische Rundschau (SNR) 47. (1968), pp. 5 - 50.

Available online:

http://dx.doi.org/10.5169/seals-173879 (text)
http://dx.doi.org/10.5169/seals-173883 (plates; but you have to advance to page 152 and then advance further to see the beginning of the plates)

Teos Griffin Head Tetartemoria and Hemitartemoria, c. 540/500 - 478 B.C.

Struck after the Persian invasion. Teos was a flourishing seaport until about 540 B.C., when the Persian emperor Cyrus the Great invaded Lydia and Ionia. The town survived but most of the citizens fled to the newly founded colonies of Abdera and Phanagoria.

All griffin head right / quadrapartite incuse square

Plate V

Tetartemoria - Group XXXIII
0.19g - 0.24g

73. One long ear slightly forward, tongue slanting down / very rough
0.23g

74. Mouth half open, tongue curved up, c. 520 - 478 B.C.

0.19g - 0.229g

75. Ear straight up, mouth half open, tongue projecting forward / raised lines, rough within quarters
    0.22g

76. Ear behind, large round head, prominent hooked beak
    0.26g

77. Large round head, long tongue curved down
    0.18g

78. Arch to head, one ear, lower jaw curved down, tongue slightly down
    0.21g

79. Thick neck, knob, lower jaw down, tongue curved to upper bill / incuse lines

0.12g - 0.24g

80. Ear forward, flat head, eye forward on beak, mouth wide open, tongue down / incuse lines, quasi-windmill, c. 478 - 449 B.C.

0.14g - 0.25g

Hemitartemoria - Group XXXIV
0.056g - 0.95g

81. Two broad ears / raised lines.
0.056g

82. Two ears, knob, tongue straight / raised lines, pattern within
0.095g

83. Two ears, knob, tongue straight / raised lines

0.081g