| Area: | Thrace: Istros |
| Period: | 400-350 BC |
| Denomination: | AR Stater |
| Obverse: | Two young male heads, facing, side by side, one upright, the other inverted. |
| Reverse: | Sea-eagle standing left, on a dolphin left, which it attacks with it's beak. "ΙΣΤΡΙΗ" above eagle. |
| Reference: | GCV 1669 (but no "A" under eagle) |
| Weight: | 6.8 gms |
| Diameter: | 17.9 mm |
| Comment: | The curious obverse type has variously been interpreted as representing the Dioscouri, the rising and setting sun, and the supposed two branches of the Danube River (or Ister). (Sear) |
THRACE/IstrosIstros was situated in Lower Moesia, not far from the mouth of the Danube (Ister), and at a little distance from the coast. (near the border of modern Romania and Ukraine) It was a colony of Miletus. It's large output of silver coinage in the 1st half of the 4th century, B.C., suggests it was a place of commercial importance. |
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