Arados, Phoenicia AE19 3rd Century BCE 

• -250 
• Phoenicia 
• AE 16 
• Ancient Greece - Hellenistic Period (323-146 B.C.) 

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Coins

Arados, Phoenicia AE19 3rd Century BCE

-250

3.1

16

( Tyche )

( galley )

SNGCop 28cf, BMC 111cf

Obv.: Turreted head of Tyche right Rev.: prow of galley left, Phoenician letters above Phoenicia was an ancient Semitic civilization situated on the western, coastal part of the Fertile Crescent and centered on the coastline of modern Syria and Lebanon. All major Phoenician cities were on the coastline of the Mediterranean, some colonies reaching the Western Mediterranean. It was an enterprising maritime trading culture that spread across the Mediterranean from 3200 BC to 300 BC. The Phoenicians used the galley, a man-powered sailing vessel, and are credited with the invention of the bireme. They were famed in Classical Greece and Rome as 'traders in purple', referring to their monopoly on the precious purple dye of the murex snail, used, among other things, for royal clothing, and for the spread of their alphabets, from which almost all modern phonetic alphabets are derived.