bgr_922408 - ELLIS ISLANDS - KEPHALLENIA - PALEIS (PALE) Unité
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Price : 150.00 €
Type : Unité
Date: c. 370-189 AC.
Mint name / Town : Paleis, Céphallénie
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 11 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,50 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli portrait d’Hermès. Usure régulière. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d’Hermès à gauche, coiffée du pétase.
Reverse
Reverse description : Caducée.
Reverse legend : P-A.
Reverse translation : (Paleis, Pale).
Historical background
ELLIS ISLANDS - KEPHALLENIA - PALEIS (PALE)
(4th - 2nd century BC)
The city of Paleis was supposed to have been founded by Peleus, the son of Cephalos, the eponymous hero of Cephallenia. The city was located in an agricultural valley surmounted by an acropolis. The city seems to have belonged to the League of Delos and the second Athenian thalassocracy. The city joined the Aetolian League from 224 BC It resisted the siege undertaken by Philip V of Macedon. After the defeat of Thermopylae in 191 BC, it submitted to the Romans and was integrated into the province of Macedonia in 146 BC.
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