Archaios | Thracian Chersonesos Lysimacheia | Herakles \ Nike | AE

Description: Archaios Numismatics _________________________________________________________________________ Description: Bronze Coin of the Thracian Chersonese city of Lysimacheia circa 309-220 BC. Obverse: Bearded head of Herakles right; Reverse: Nike standing left with right hand extended holding wreath; Ethnic down Left field and below: ΛYSIMA-XEWN; Monograms in Right field Mint: Lysimachia, Chersonesos Size: 15 mm Weight: 3.15 g Ref: SNG Cop 915 Inventory: 53.7 Condition: VF. Very nice example of this Rare and interesting type from a scarce city ! As always, Use the Picture as your judge as grading is subjective. Notes: Lysimachia (or Lysimacheia) was an important Greek town on the north-western extremity of the Thracian Chersonese located in the neck where the peninsula joins the mainland in what is now the European part of Turkey, not far from the bay of Melas. The city was built by Lysimachus in 309 BC, when he was preparing for war with his rivals; for the new city, being situated on the isthmus, commanded the road from Sestos to the north and the mainland of Thrace. In order to obtain inhabitants for his new city, Lysimachus destroyed the neighboring town of Cardia and settled the inhabitants of it and other Chersonesean cities here and made it the capital of his kingdom. After his death the city fell under Seleucid dominion, Cardia (or Kardia) was an ancient greek city of the Thrace and was a colony of Miletus. It was one of the chief cities of the Chersonese and was situated at the head of the Gulf of Melas. The region of Thracian Chersonesus (from Greek χερσόνησος for "peninsula") was known to the Greeks and later Romans along what is the modern day Gallipoli Peninsula. The peninsula runs in a south-westerly direction into the Aegean Sea, between the Hellespont (now the Dardanelles) and the bay of Melas (currently the Gulf of Saros). It was the location of several prominent Thracian towns, including Cardia, Pactya, Callipolis (Gallipoli), Alopeconnesus, Sestos, Madytos, and Elaeus. The peninsula was renowned for its wheat grains. It also benefited from its strategic importance on the main route between Europe and Asia, as well as from its control of the shipping route from Crimea. The city of Sestos was the main crossing-point on the Hellespont. According to Herodotus, the Thracian tribe of Dolonci held possession of Chersonesus before the Greek colonization. Then, settlers from Ancient Greece, mainly of Ionian and Aeolian stock, founded about 12 cities on the peninsula in the 7th century BC. The Athenian statesman Miltiades the Elder founded a major Athenian colony there around 560 BC. He took authority over the entire peninsula, building up its defences against incursions from the mainland. It eventually passed to his nephew, the more famous Miltiades the Younger, around 524 BC. The peninsula was abandoned to the Persians in 493 BC after the outbreak of the Greco-Persian Wars (499–478 BC). The Persians were eventually expelled, after which the peninsula was for a time ruled over by Athens, which enrolled it into the Delian League in 478 BC. The Athenians established a number of cleruchies on the Thracian Chersonese and sent an additional 1,000 settlers around 448 BC. Sparta gained control after the decisive battle of Aegospotami in 404 BC, but the peninsula subsequently reverted to the Athenians. In the 4th century BC, the Thracian Chersonese became the focus of a bitter territorial dispute between Athens and Philip II of Macedon who sought possession. In 352 BC the city of Cardia concluded a treaty of amity with king Philip II and the whole peninsula was eventually ceded to him in 338 BC. The town of Cardia was destroyed by Lysimachus about 309 BC, and although it was afterwards rebuilt, it never again rose to any degree of prosperity. Instead the newly built nearaby town of Lysimacheia became the main city of the area. After the death of Philip's son Alexander the Great in 323 BC, the Thracian Chersonese became the object of contention among Alexander's successors. Lysimachus established his capital Lysimachia near the ruins of Kardia. In 278 BC, Celtic tribes from Galatia in Asia Minor settled in the area. In 196 BC, the Seleucid king Antiochus III seized the peninsula. This alarmed the Greeks and prompted them to seek the aid of the Romans, who conquered the Thracian Chersonese, which they gave to their ally Eumenes II of Pergamon in 188 BC. At the extinction of the Attalid dynasty in 133 BC it passed again to the Romans, who from 129 BC administered it in the Roman province of Asia. It was subsequently made a state-owned territory (ager publicus) and during the reign of the emperor Augustus it was imperial property. Excerpts taken From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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