bgr_519091 - THRACE - AINOS Tétradrachme
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Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 1 200.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 1 200.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 402/401 - 357/356 AC.
Mint name / Town : Ænos, Thrace
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 14,88 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Joli portrait d’Hermès, bien venu à la frappe. Patine grise superficielle
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Hermès de trois quarts de face tournée à droite, coiffée du pétase sans bord, orné d'un grènetis, les cheveux flottant en mèches courtes.
Reverse
Reverse description : Bouc passant à droite ; devant dans le champ à droite, une couronne de laurier.
Reverse legend : AINION
Reverse translation : (d’Aenos).
Commentary
Exemplaire présenté à NGC et revenu en “No Decision”. Bien que l’authenticité de la monnaie ne puisse être remise en cause, la présence d’aspérités à la surface de la pièce ne permet pas de lui attribuer un grade visant à déterminer son état de conservation de façon précise.
Item submitted to NGC and returned as “No Decision”. Although this coin’s authenticity is unquestionable, the presence of bumps on its surface makes it impossible to grant it a grade and precisely ascertain its condition..
Item submitted to NGC and returned as “No Decision”. Although the authenticity of the coin cannot be questioned, the presence of bumps on the surface makes it impossible to grant it a grade and precisely ascertain its condition.
Item submitted to NGC and returned as “No Decision”. Although this coin’s authenticity is unquestionable, the presence of bumps on its surface makes it impossible to grant it a grade and precisely ascertain its condition..
Item submitted to NGC and returned as “No Decision”. Although the authenticity of the coin cannot be questioned, the presence of bumps on the surface makes it impossible to grant it a grade and precisely ascertain its condition.
Historical background
THRACE - AINOS
(435-405 BC)
Aenos 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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