KARDIA in THRACE 350BC Barley Corn LION Authentic Ancient Greek Coin Rare i46612
KARDIA in THRACE 350BC Barley Corn LION Authentic Ancient Greek Coin Rare i46612

KARDIA in THRACE 350BC Barley Corn LION Authentic Ancient Greek Coin Rare i46612

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Authentic Ancient

Coin of:

Greek city of
Kardia
in
Thrace

Bronze 14mm (0.94 grams) Struck circa 350-309 B.C.

Reference: Sear 1600 var.; BMC 15
Lion
leaping left..
KAP/ΔIA above and below barley corn within
linear square.

Kardia was originally a colony of Miletos. It was destroyed by Lysimachos in 309 B.C..

You are bidding on the exact item pictured,

provided with a Certificate of Authenticity and Lifetime Guarantee of

Authenticity.

Cardia (in
Greek
Kαρδία), anciently the chief town
of the
Thracian Chersonese
(today
Gallipoli
peninsula), was situated at the head
of the gulf of Melas (today Saros bay). It was originally a
colony
of the
Milesians
and
Clazomenians
; but subsequently, in the time of
Miltiades
(late 6th century BC), the place also
received Athenian
colonists, as proved by Miltiades
tyranny (515–493 BC). But this didn’t make Cardia necessarily always
pro-Athenian: when in 357 BC Athens took control of the Chersonese, the latter,
under the rule of a
Thracian
prince, was the only city to remain
neutral; but the decisive year was 352 BC when the city concluded a treaty of
amity with king
Philip II of Macedonia
. A great crisis exploded
when Diopeithes
, an Athenian mercenary captain, had
in 343 BC brought Attic settlers to the town; and since Cardia was unwilling to
receive them, Philip immediately sent help to the town. The king proposed to
settle the dispute between the two cities by arbitration, but Athens refused.
The town was destroyed by
Lysimachus
about 309 BC,
and although it was afterwards rebuilt, it never again rose to any degree of
prosperity, as
Lysimachia
, which was built in its vicinity and
peopled with the inhabitants of Cardia, became the chief town in that
neighbourhood.
Cardia was the birthplace of Alexander’s secretary
Eumenes

and of the historian
Hieronymus
.

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