bgr_353412 - THRACE - AINOS Tétrobole
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 750.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 750.00 €
Type : Tétrobole
Date: c. 415-405 AC.
Mint name / Town : Ænos (Ainos),Macédoine
Metal : silver
Diameter : 12 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,31 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Portrait magnifique d’Hermès, de haut relief, bien venu à la frappe. Joli revers de style fin. Belle patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets mordorés
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Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Hermès 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 inférieur droit, une massue posée verticalement.
Reverse legend : AIN
Commentary
Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire de MONNAIES XIX, n° 41.
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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