Thracian Islands, Thasos AR Diobol 525-463 BC -Choice XF! Perfect 5/5 Strike! PQ

Description: Thracian Islands, Thasos AR (Silver) Diobol (525-463 BC) - Choice XF! Perfect 5/5 Strike! PQ. 3/5 Surface Exceptional 5/5 Strike & Ancient High Relief Coin! Ancient Thracian Island of Thasos 525-463 BC! Very Rare in this Condition Ithyphallic Satyr running right, holding organ / Quadripartite incuse square. HGC 6, 333. Sharply struck on good metal from dies of fine archaic style. Thasos, Modern Greek Thásos, Latin Thasus, is a large, wooded island of the northernmost Aegean Sea, northeastern Greece. It is located southwest of the delta of the Néstos River in Thrace (Thráki) and has a total coastline of 59 miles (95 km). Thasos is an outlier of the Macedonian crystalline massif, with intercalations of horizontally inclined white marble. The highest mountain, Mount Ipsárion (3,947 feet [1,203 metres]), lies near the island’s northeastern coast. The population is distributed in about 10 villages, mostly at some distance from the sea; the chief town, Thásos (formerly Limín), is on the north coast. The ancient Greek historian Herodotus mentions an early Phoenician settlement that worked the island’s gold mines. In the 7th century BCE, Greeks from Páros colonized Thasos, exploited the gold mines, and founded a school of sculpture. In 465 Thasos seceded from the Delian League in a dispute over gold mines on the mainland, but, after a siege of two years by the Athenians, it was forced to demolish its walls, surrender its fleet and mainland possessions, and pay an indemnity and an annual contribution to the league. During the Peloponnesian War, Thasos revolted from 411 to 407, and, after Athens’ defeat, the Spartan admiral Lysander seized the island (403). Thasos was again allied to Athens in 389 and was a permanent member of the Second Athenian League. It became a Macedonian dependency in 202 and passed to the Romans in 196. From 1204 CE it was under Latin rule until its capture by the Turks in 1455. The Turks ruled it almost continuously for the next three and a half centuries. From 1813 to 1902 it belonged to the Turkish governors of Egypt, and in 1913 it passed from the Turks to Greece following the Balkan Wars. Please Check out Our Web Site : antebellumnumismatics. com where you can see many new purchases and other listings. Please reach out to us if you have any questions about any listings you see. *Combined Shipping Available ON ALL Items, Request an Invoice or we will send you one after one business day. Items over 16 oz. or $800 in value must be shipped Priority Mail. Payment on all items is expected within Five Business Days to ensure a timely delivery. Please contact us directly if you need more than Five Business Days to send payment. ALL Precious Metals tested with our own Sigma Metalytics Precious Metal Tester and guaranteed genuine. 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Price: 395 USD

Location: Harvest, Alabama

End Time: 2024-12-11T05:20:27.000Z

Shipping Cost: 3.95 USD