bgr_699140 - THRACE - AINOS Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: c. 200-100 AC.
Mint name / Town : Aenos, Thrace
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,68 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan ovale, centré. Usure régulière. Belle tête de Poséidon. Patine verte
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête barbue de Poséidon (Neptune) à droite, coiffé de la taenia.
Reverse
Reverse description : Hermès (Mercure) 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
Reverse translation : (d’Aenos).
Commentary
Poids très léger.
Historical background
THRACE - AINOS
(2nd - 1st century 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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