bgr_561013 - THRACE - AINOS Tetrobole
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Price : 220.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 220.00 €
Type : Tetrobole
Date: c. 402/401 - 361/360 AC.
Mint name / Town : Aenos (Ainos), Thrace
Metal : silver
Diameter : 14,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,26 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré des deux côtés. Très belle tête d’Hermès de face. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Épaisse patine de collection ancienne gris foncé, un peu bouchée au revers
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Cet exemplaire provient de la collection B. Odaert
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 inférieur droit, un astre centré à huit rais ; le tout, dans les restes d’un carré creux.
Reverse legend : AINION
Reverse translation : (d’Aenos).
Commentary
Poids 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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