Cast wheel money 14mm (1.23 grams) Struck circa 500 B.C.
Reference: SNG BMC 221.
Wheel of four spokes around central dot.
IΣT.

 A Milesian colony, its large output of silver coiange in the first half of the 4th Century suggests
that it was a palce of commercial importance.
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Ancient Histria or Istros (Ιστριη, Thracian river god, Danube), was a Greek colony or polis (πολις, city) on the Black Sea coast, established by Milesian settlers to trade with the native Getae. It became the first Greek town on the present day Romanian territory. Scymnus of Chios (ca 110 BC), the Greek geographer and poet, dated it to 630 BC. Eusebius of Caesarea, some centuries later, dated its founding to 657 – 656 BC, at the time of the 33rd Olympic Games. The earliest documented currency on Romanian territory was an 8-gram silver drachma, issued in Histria in the year 480 BC.

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