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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Macedonia| > |Other Macedonia| > GA88085
Terone, Macedonia, c. 490 - 480 B.C.
|Other| |Macedonia|, |Terone,| |Macedonia,| |c.| |490| |-| |480| |B.C.|, "The site of the ancient city of Terone is located in the Chalkidike on the south-west coast of Sithonia. The site was occupied at various times from the third millennium BC until the nineteenth century A.D. Ancient literary sources refer to the occupation of the site from the archaic to the Hellenistic period. It was mentioned in the accounts in Thucydides of the siege by Brasidas in 424/3 and its recovery by the Athenians in 422." -- Nicholas Hardwick in "The Coinage of Terone from the Fifth to the Fourth Centuries BC" in Studies Price.
GA88085. Silver 1/12 stater, cf. Hardwick group II, pl. 29, 7; HGC 3 710 (R2, grape bunch on side of oinochoe); SNG ANS 748 (1/6th stater); BMC Macedonia p. 107, 4 (same), VF, centered, nice toning, corrosion, Terone (Toroni, Greece) mint, weight 1.196g, maximum diameter 11.1mm, c. 490 - 480 B.C.; obverse oinochoe, handle on right; reverse quadripartite incuse square; ; very rare; SOLD




  







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