Collection of Greek Coins of Troas / Τρωάς
Aeolium / Αιόλιον



The location of the mint appears to be uncertain:
-   Sylloge Nummorum Grecorum Tueky 9 Volume 1 Troas places it in the Troas.
    https://www.amazon.de/Sylloge-Nummorum-Graecorum-Turkey-Collection/dp/6054701584
-   Wikipedia cites two cities with this name: Aioleion in Chalcidice and Aeolium of the Thracian Chersonesus.
    "Aeolium or Aioleion (Ancient Greek: Αἰόλειον) was a town of Chalcidice in ancient Macedonia. It belonged
    to the Delian League since it appears in the tribute registry of Athens for the years 434/3, 433/2 and 429/8
    BCE, where it paid a phoros of 500 drachmas.[1] It also appears in a treaty of alliance between the
    Athenians and Bottiaeans dated to 422 BCE, from which it is deduced that it belonged to the territory of
    Bottiaea. Its site is near modern Bottike.
    However, in a fragment of Theopompus collected by Stephanus of Byzantium, Aeolium is cited as a city of
    the Thracian Chersonesus."
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolium
-   The Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire (DARE)  and the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World
    (2000) it at the southmost end of the
Thracian Chersonesus.
    https://dh.gu.se/dare/
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrington_Atlas_of_the_Greek_and_Roman_World
-   Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (Wikisource) identifies:
        an Aioleion on the Macedonian Bottike,
        the island group Αἰολίδες on the northwest coast of Asia Minor
        the mountain range Αἰόλιον on
the Thracian Chersonesus.
    https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/RE:Aioleion
-   CNG 449E/121 allocates the mint to Troas
    "This issue is often erroneously attributed to Mytilene on Lesbos, based on older research that had been
    the basis of such an attribution in SNG Copenhagen and von Aulock. However, since L. Robert’s Etudes de
    numismatique grecque in 1951, periodic studies have convincingly reattributed this series to a city of
    Aioleion in Troas, which is corroborated by the appearance of three bronzes in the Arikantürk collection
    acquired in the region of ancient Adramyteion."
    https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=386252



SHH
Athena / Thunderbolt, Caduceus, A
ΑE   2.68 g  
≈12.5   330-280 BC   Copenhagen (Lesbos Koinon) 331

7124 Aeolium Troas AE
SHH 7124
Diademed Female Head / Thunderbolt, Grapes
ΑE 
  330-280 BC   Copenhagen (Lesbos Koinon) 333; Tuekey IX/1 Troas; von Aulock (Lesbos Koinon) 1732

v5332 Aeolium Troas AE v5333 Aeolium Troas AE
SHH v5332
SHH v5332
Diademed Female Head / Thunderbolt, Caduceus
ΑE 
  330-280 BC   Copenhagen (Lesbos Koinon) 332; Trekey IX/1 Troas
v5332   4.15 g   ≈15.5   centering -/-   Grooves -/-   CNG 449E/121
v5333   2.79 g   ≈16   centering -/-   Grooves -/-   Savoca Coins on eBay, 9.3.2020


SHH
Diademed Female Head / Thunderbolt, Grapes
ΑE   0.77 g  
≈9.5   330-280 BC   Copenhagen (Lesbos Koinon) 335


SHH
Diademed Female Head / Thunderbolt, Caduceus
ΑE   0.97 g  
≈7.5   330-280 BC   Copenhagen (Lesbos Koinon) 334


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