AIGOSPOTAMOI in THRACE 300BC Demeter Goat Authentic Ancient Greek Coin i112271
AIGOSPOTAMOI in THRACE 300BC Demeter Goat Authentic Ancient Greek Coin i112271
AIGOSPOTAMOI in THRACE 300BC Demeter Goat Authentic Ancient Greek Coin i112271

AIGOSPOTAMOI in THRACE 300BC Demeter Goat Authentic Ancient Greek Coin i112271

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Authentic Ancient Coin of:

Greek city of Aigospotamoi in Thrace
Bronze 16mm (4.43 grams) Struck circa 300 B.C.
Reference: Sear 1561; B.M.C. 3.2; BMC Thrace pg. 187, 2; SNG Copenhagen 850; Laffaille -; Weber 2439
Head of Demeter left, wearing triple-pendant earring, necklace and stephanos decorated with a laurel wreath and vine.
ΑΙΓΟΣΠΟ, Goat standing left.

Aigospotamoi i.e. the goat’s river; the scene of the great Athenian naval defeat by Lysander at the end of the Peloponnesian War.

You are bidding on the exact item pictured, provided with a Certificate of Authenticity and Lifetime Guarantee of Authenticity.

In Greek mythology, Demeter was the goddess of the harvest, who presided over grains, the fertility of the earth, the seasons (personified by the Hours), and the harvest. One of her surnames is Sito (σίτος: wheat) as the giver of food or corn. Though Demeter is often described simply as the goddess of the harvest, she presided also over the sanctity of marriage, the sacred law, and the cycle of life and death. She and her daughter Persephone were the central figures of the Eleusinian Mysteries that also predated the Olympian pantheon.

Her Roman cognate is Ceres.

Aegospotami (Αἰγὸς Ποταμοί) or Aegospotamos (i.e. Goat Streams) is the ancient Greek name for a small river issuing into the Hellespont (Modern Turkish Çanakkale Boğazı), northeast of Sestos.

At its mouth was the scene of the decisive battle in 405 BC, called Battle of Aegospotami, in which Lysander destroyed the Athenian fleet, ending the Peloponnesian War. The ancient Greek township of the same name, whose existence is attested by coins of the 5th and 4th centuries, and the river itself were located in ancient Thrace in the Chersonese.

According to ancient sources including Pliny the Elder and Aristotle, in 467 BC a large meteorite landed near Aegospotami. It was described as brown in colour and the size of a wagon load; it was a local landmark for more than 500 years. A comet, tentatively identified as Halley’s Comet, was reported at the time the meteorite landed. This is possibly the first European record of Halley’s comet.

Aegospotami is located on the Dardanelles, northeast of the modern Turkish town of Sütlüce, Gelibolu.

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YEAR

Circa 300 BC
CULTURE

Greek
COIN TYPE

Ancient
DENOMINATION

AE16
ERA

Ancient
MPN

Greek Ancient AE16 443eac32-a8e0

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