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v31_0030 - THRACE - AINOS Bronze, (MB, Æ 22)

THRACE - AINOS Bronze, (MB, Æ 22) XF
MONNAIES 31 (2007)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Bronze, (MB, Æ 22)
Date: c. 200-100 AC.
Mint name / Town : Aenos
Metal : copper
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 5,14 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et bien centré des deux côtés avec une usure importante, mais parfaitement identifiable. Beau portrait. Revers intéressant. Patine vert jade foncé, légèrement granuleuse
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de Poséidon à droite, coiffé de la taenia.

Reverse


Reverse description : Hermès nu, debout à gauche, coiffé du pétase, tenant une bourse de la main droite et un caducée ailé de la main gauche ; à ses pieds à gauche, un coq tourné à gauche.
Reverse legend : AINI-WN

Commentary


Poids très léger.

Historical background


THRACE - AINOS

(405-357 BC)

Aenos (Ænos) was located at the mouth of the Hebros (Hebres) and controlled maritime traffic on the course of the river. It was a powerful and flourishing commercial city which experienced its greatest expansion in the 5th century BC. After the Persian Wars, it entered the Athenian orbit from 474 BC. amounted to 10-12 talents on the occasion of the Athenian expedition to Sicily. It seems to have regained its independence from 405-404 BC at the time of the fall of Athens and the tyranny of the Thirty. From 357 BC, it fell into the hands of Philip II of Macedon as Amphipolis. After the death of Alexander III the Great, Lysimachus set up a royal mint there..

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