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Rare genuine Ancient Greek silver coin Stater/Thrace, Thasos 510 BC Satyr, Nymph

Rare genuine Ancient Greek silver coin Stater/Thrace, Thasos 510 BC Satyr, Nymph
Rare genuine Ancient Greek silver coin Stater/Thrace, Thasos 510 BC Satyr, Nymph
Rare genuine Ancient Greek silver coin Stater/Thrace, Thasos 510 BC Satyr, Nymph
Rare genuine Ancient Greek silver coin Stater/Thrace, Thasos 510 BC Satyr, Nymph

Rare genuine Ancient Greek silver coin Stater/Thrace, Thasos 510 BC Satyr, Nymph
Greek city of Thasos, Island of Thrace. / Naked ithyphallic satyr carrying off a nymph who raises her arm in protest. Rare and interesting coin as pictured. The historical boundaries of Thrace have varied. To the ancient Greeks it was that part of the Balkans between the Danube River to the north and the Aegean Sea to the south, being bounded on the east by the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara and on the west by the mountains east of the Vardar (Modern Greek: Axiós or Vardárais) River.

The Roman province of Thrace was somewhat smaller, having the same eastern maritime limits and being bounded on the north by the Balkan Mountains; the Roman province extended west only to the Néstos River. Since Roman times, Greek Macedonia to the west has been separated from Greek Thrace by the Néstos. The portion of Thrace that is now part of Greece is bounded by the Néstos River to the west, the Rhodope (Rodópi) Mountains to the north, and the Maritsa (also called Évros) River to the east.

The southern part of Bulgaria and European Turkey, including the Gallipoli Peninsula, constitute the remainder of the geographical region of Thrace. About one-fourth of Thrace lies in Turkey, about one-tenth in Greece, and the remainder in Bulgaria. Ancient Greek and Roman historians agreed that the ancient Thracians, who were of Indo-European stock and language, were superior fighters; only their constant political fragmentation prevented them from overrunning the lands around the northeastern Mediterranean. Although these historians characterized the Thracians as primitive partly because they lived in simple, open villages, the Thracians in fact had a fairly advanced culture that was especially noted for its poetry and music. Their soldiers were valued as mercenaries, particularly by the Macedonians and Romans.

The Greeks founded several colonies on the Thracian coasts, the most notable being Byzantium. Others were on the Bosporus, Propontis, and Thracian Chersonese peninsula.

On the Aegean were Abdera near the Néstos delta and Aenus near Alexandroúpoli. Farther north on the Black Seas Gulf of Burgas, the Milesians founded Apollonia 7th century. , and the Chalcedonians founded Mesembria end of the 6th century.

Most Thracians became subject to Persia about 516510. Members of the Odrysae tribe briefly unified their fellow Thracians into an empire that in 360. Split three ways and was quite easily assimilated (356342) by Philip II of Macedon. The Thracians provided Philips son, Alexander the Great, with valuable light-armed troops during his conquests. In 197, Rome assigned much of Thrace to the kingdom of Pergamum, though the coastal area west of the Maritsa was annexed to the Roman province of Macedonia.

Rome became more directly involved in the affairs of the whole region, and dynastic quarrels among the local Thracian rulers, who had by then become client kings of Rome, prompted the emperor Claudius I to annex the entire Thracian kingdom in 46. Thrace was subsequently made into a Roman province. The emperor Trajan and his successor, Hadrian, founded cities in Thrace, notably Sardica (modern Sofia) and Hadrianopolis (modern Edirne). Diocletian reorganized the area between the Lower Danube and the Aegean into the diocese of Thrace. All items will be sent out in protected envelope and boxed if necessary.

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  • Date: 510bc
  • Composition: Silver
  • Provenance: thrace
  • Denomination: stater

Rare genuine Ancient Greek silver coin Stater/Thrace, Thasos 510 BC Satyr, Nymph