Mint of Thessalonica

c. 200 BC/BCE to 641 CE and 1100 CE to 1430 CE

Thessaloniki, also known as Thessalonica, Saloniki or Salonica is the second-largest city in Greece. The city of Thessaloniki was founded in 315 BC by Cassander of Macedon and was named after his wife Thessalonike, daughter of Philip II of Macedon and sister of Alexander the Great. An important metropolis by the Roman period, Thessaloniki was the second largest and wealthiest city of the Byzantine Empire. Thessalonica coinage is among the most extensive and longest ones in the eastern half of the Mediterranean. Its first issues date from the middle of the second century BC, continuing throughout the Roman and early Byzantine periods until the last years of the reign of Heraclius (610-641), at which time the Arab invasions interrupt the Byzantine trade flows, provoking a tremendous economic chaos that would lead to the closing of most of the imperial mints. After a long parenthesis of several hundred years, the Thessalonica mint will be reactivated at the end of the eleventh century, working during other three centuries until the Ottoman conquest of the city.

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c. 200 BC/BCE to 641 CE and 1100 CE to 1430 CE

Thessaloniki, also known as Thessalonica, Saloniki or Salonica is the second-largest city in Greece. The city of Thessaloniki was founded in 315 BC by Cassander of Macedon and was named after his wife Thessalonike, daughter of Philip II of Macedon and sister of Alexander the Great. An important metropolis by the Roman period, Thessaloniki was the second largest and wealthiest city of the Byzantine Empire. Thessalonica coinage is among the most extensive and longest ones in the eastern half of the Mediterranean. Its first issues date from the middle of the second century BC, continuing throughout the Roman and early Byzantine periods until the last years of the reign of Heraclius (610-641), at which time the Arab invasions interrupt the Byzantine trade flows, provoking a tremendous economic chaos that would lead to the closing of most of the imperial mints. After a long parenthesis of several hundred years, the Thessalonica mint will be reactivated at the end of the eleventh century, working during other three centuries until the Ottoman conquest of the city.

Subject ID: 128002

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