Mint of Kierion

c. 400 BC/BCE to unknown date

Cierium or Kierion was a town and polis (city-state) in the district of Thessaliotis in ancient Thessaly, which according to some ancient commentators, such as Stephanus of Byzantium was the successor to the Homeric Arne, the chief town of the Aeolian Boeotians in Thessaly, from which they emigrated to Boeotia. The bronze coins of Cierium date from about the middle of the fourth century and later which bear the inscription ΚΙΕΡ., ΚΙΕΡΙΕΩΝ or ΚΙΕΡΙΕΙΩΝ. 

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c. 400 BC/BCE to unknown date

Cierium or Kierion was a town and polis (city-state) in the district of Thessaliotis in ancient Thessaly, which according to some ancient commentators, such as Stephanus of Byzantium was the successor to the Homeric Arne, the chief town of the Aeolian Boeotians in Thessaly, from which they emigrated to Boeotia. The bronze coins of Cierium date from about the middle of the fourth century and later which bear the inscription ΚΙΕΡ., ΚΙΕΡΙΕΩΝ or ΚΙΕΡΙΕΙΩΝ. 

 

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