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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Greece| > |Euboia| > GS77221
Histiaia, North Euboea, Greece, c. 267 - 168 B.C.
|Euboia|, |Histiaia,| |North| |Euboea,| |Greece,| |c.| |267| |-| |168| |B.C.|, Histiaia, named after its patron nymph, commanded a strategic position overlooking the narrows leading to the North Euboian Gulf. In the Iliad, Homer describes the surrounding plain as "rich in vines." It was pro-Macedonian during the 3rd century, for which it was attacked in 208 and captured in 199 by a Roman-Pergamene force. The Roman garrison was removed in 194. It appears Histiaia continued to prosper but little is known of its later history. Finds at the site indicate it continued to be inhabited in Roman, Byzantine, and later times.
GS77221. Silver tetrobol, cf. BCD Euboia 417; SNG Cop 524; BMC Central p. 132, 98; SGCV I 2498, VF, centered on a tight flan, die wear, Histiaia (near Oreoi, Greece) mint, weight 1.809g, maximum diameter 13.6mm, die axis 315o, c. 267 - 168 B.C.; obverse head of nymph Histiaia right, wearing earring and necklace, hair rolled and wreathed in vine; reverse IΣTI-AIEΩN (starting below, ending downward upper left), nymph Histiaia seated right on stern of a galley holding naval standard, ornate apluster, wing ornament on hull; SOLD











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