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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Troas| > GA68143
Dardanos, Troas, Late 5th Century B.C.
|Troas|, |Dardanos,| |Troas,| |Late| |5th| |Century| |B.C.|,
In mythology, Dardanos was founded by Dardanus, from whom the city, the region and the people took their name. It lay on the Hellespont, and is the source of the strait's modern name, the Dardanelles. From Dardanus' grandson Tros the people gained the additional name of Trojans and the region gained the additional name Troad. Tros' son Ilus subsequently founded a city called Ilion (in Latin Ilium) down on the plain, the city now commonly called Troy, and the kingdom was split between Ilium and Dardania. The Dardani people appear in the Trojan War under Aeneas, in close alliance with the Trojans, with whose name their own is often interchanged, especially by the Roman poets.The Troad
GA68143. Silver obol, SNG Cop 282; SNG Ashmolean 1120; SNGvA -, SNG Munchen -, aVF, darkly toned, Dardanos mint, weight 0.652g, maximum diameter 9.7mm, die axis 0o, late 5th century B.C.; obverse horseman riding left; reverse cock standing left within incuse square; ex CNG auction 311, lot 675; ex Daniel Koppersmith Collection; ex CNG auction 260, lot 217; rare; SOLD




  







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