bgr_610396 - THRACE - AINOS Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: c. 188-88 AC.
Mint name / Town : Aenos, Thrace
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,65 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier bien centré. Très belle représentation d’Hermès au droit. Revers de frappe légèrement granuleuse. Patine gris foncé avec des reflets métalliques
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête nue d’Hermès (Mercure) à droite le kyrekeion (caducée) sur l’épaule.
Reverse
Reverse description : Asklépios (Esculape) nu jusqu’à la ceinture, tenant de la main droite, un serpent enroulé autour d’un bâton (kyrekeion).
Reverse legend : AIN-IWN
Reverse translation : (d’Aenos).
Commentary
Au revers l’oméga de la fin de la légende ressemble à un pi. Ce type appartient bien au monnayage grec. Ce type semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. C’est la première fois que nous le proposons à la vente.
On the reverse, the omega at the end of the legend looks like a pi. This type belongs to Greek coinage. This type seems rarer than general works suggest. This is the first time we are offering it for sale.
On the reverse, the omega at the end of the legend looks like a pi. This type belongs to Greek coinage. This type seems rarer than general works suggest. This is the first time we are offering it for sale.
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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