bgr_239486 - THRACE - AINOS Diobole
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 125.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 125.00 €
Type : Diobole
Date: c. 449 AC.
Mint name / Town : Aenos, Thrace
Metal : silver
Diameter : 10 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,08 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais, bien centré des deux côtés, à l’usure importante, parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Beau portrait d’Hermès. Joli revers. Recouvert d’une fine patine grise superficielle, légèrement granuleuse
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Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Hermès à droite, coiffée du pétase sans bord.
Reverse
Reverse description : Caducée placé diagonalement dans un carré creux.
Reverse legend : A-I.
Reverse translation : (d’Aenos).
Historical background
THRACE - AINOS
(479-449 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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