180 BC - 100 BC

Aelis   Rex Scythicus Thraciae
Αίλις   Σκύθης Βασιλέας Θράκης


 AE 22
SHH 3337

3337 Aelis Rex Scythicus Thraciae AE

Parameter
Obverse
Reverse

Notes



Reference
7.45 g   21.1-22.8 mm   12:00 o'clock   VF
Jugate heads of the Dioscouroi right, wearing laureate piloi.
Two horse foreparts jugate right; [ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ / ΑΙΛΙΟΣ] upward either side;
monogramm [ΓΔΕ] (uncertain) below.

Obverse, two countermarks, head of Hermes wearing petasos right and
male head with hat right.
Attributed to Aelis because of the first countermark.
Attributed to the type with the
ΓΔΕ monogramm because of the large horse foreparts.
BM Black Sea --- (3rd-2nd c. BC); Canarache 34; Draganov (2010) 42;
Head --- (2nd-1st Century BC); Lindgren ---; Minns ---; Stancomb 320 (180-150 BC)