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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Aeolis| > GB86112
Aigai, Aiolis, 3rd Century B.C.
|Aeolis|, |Aigai,| |Aiolis,| |3rd| |Century| |B.C.|, Aegae (or Aigai) means place of goats and was the name of many cities of antiquity. Aigai, Aiolis was also an important sanctuary of Apollo. It was within the Lydian Empire, then the Achaemenid Persian Empire, but had its brightest period under the Attalid dynasty, which ruled from nearby Pergamon in the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C. It changed hands from Pergamon to the Seleucid Empire, but was recaptured by Attalus I of Pergamon in 218 B.C. In the war between Bithynia and Pergamon, it was destroyed by Prusias II of Bithynia in 156 B.C. After a peace was brokered by the Romans, the city was compensated with 100 talents. In 129 B.C., the Kingdom of Pergamon became part of the Roman Empire. Aigai was destroyed by an earthquake in 17 A.D. and received aid for reconstruction from Tiberius. The ruins are near the village of Yuntdagi Koseler in Manisa Province, Turkey.
GB86112. Bronze AE 9, SNG Cop 2; SNGvA 1593 var. (no legend), BMC Troas -, SNG Munchen -, VF, dark green patina with highlighting earthen deposits, scratches, Aiolis, Aigai (near Yuntdagi Koseler, Turkey) mint, weight 1.220g, maximum diameter 9.1mm, die axis 0o, 3rd century B.C.; obverse laureate head of Apollo right; reverse head and neck of goat right, AIΓAΕ upward behind; SOLD










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