Authentic Genuine Ancient Greek Thracian Silver Coin Victorian Pendant Necklace

Description: Authentic Ancient (4th Century BC, 2300+ years old!) Thrace Chersonesos Silver Hemidrachm Coin, set in a 925 Solid Sterling Silver Large Victorian Style Pendant. 925 Solid Sterling Silver Chain Included.The coin minted in Thracian Chersonesos (Modern Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey), circa 400 - 330 B.C. Coin's Obverse: Forepart of lion right, head turned back. Coin's Reverse: Quaripartite incuse square. References: McCLean 4076 (for the type). Provenance: Savoca Coins Auction House (Munich, Germany). Pendant's approximate height is 48 mm. Cain's length is 21.5". Please take a look at the photos for details. Shipping fees: $4.49 (the 50 states), $13.49 (Worldwide). Thank you for looking. Historical Facts:Thracian Chersonese, ancient region comprising the modern Gallipoli Peninsula, located on the European side of the Hellespont (the Dardanelles, in modern Turkey). A major wheat-exporting region, it was on the main trade route between Europe and Asia; one of its cities, Sestos, was at the main crossing point of the Hellespont. Aeolians from Lesbos and Ionian Greeks from Miletus founded about 12 cities on the peninsula in the 7th century BC.The Athenian general Miltiades the Elder established a colony there and built a defensive wall across the Bulair Isthmus, at the request of the native Dolonci, who chose him to be their king. Miltiades became tyrant of the Greek cities and founded a dynasty that survived until his nephew Miltiades the Younger abandoned the Chersonese to Darius I of Persia in 493 BC.After the Greco-Persian Wars, Athens enrolled the area into the Delian League in 478 and sent 1,000 additional settlers (cleruchs) there c. 448. Sparta briefly controlled it after the Peloponnesian War (431–404), but it reverted to the Athenians, who sent settlers there in 353. In 338 Athens ceded it to Philip of Macedon. It became part of the Seleucid Empire and was then given to Eumenes II of Pergamum (188) and to the Romans (133), who turned most of the area into ager publicus (state-owned land). Under the emperor Augustus it was imperial property.

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