Welcome to cc coins Up for auction is a Greek silver hemiobol coin from an Uncertain Carian mint, Minted between 400-340 BC

ID# 492a MINT: Uncertain Carian Mint

OBVERSE; NONE -Head of Ram right.

REVERSE; (obscured ethnic legend) -Head of young male right.

REFERENCE: SNG Keckman I 883 ff.

Caria (/'k??ri?/; from Luwian: Karuwa, "steep country"; Ancient Greek: ?a??a, Karia, Turkish: Karya) was a region of western Anatolia extending along the coast from mid-Ionia (Mycale) south to Lycia and east to Phrygia. The Ionian and Dorian Greeks colonized the west of it and joined the Carian population in forming Greek-dominated states there. The eponymous inhabitants of Caria were known as Carians, and they had arrived in Caria before the Greeks. They were described by Herodotos as being of Minoan descent,[1] while the Carians themselves maintained that they were Anatolian mainlanders intensely engaged in seafaring and were akin to the Mysians and the Lydians[citation needed]. The Carians did speak an Anatolian language, known as Carian, which does not necessarily reflect their geographic origin, as Anatolian once may have been widespread. Also closely associated with the Carians were the Leleges, which could be an earlier name for Carians or for a people who had preceded them in the region and continued to exist as part of their society in a reputedly second-class status.

The coin will be shipped out from Auckland inside a 2x2 coin flip with information insert.

The shipping is $2.20 for this auction to anywhere in New Zealand.

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