Circa 300-200 BCE
Æ 13.14g, 26mm, 12h
Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion-skin headdress /
Monogram containing kerykeion; bow to left, arrow head downwards to right, aphlaston above
Imhoof-Blumer, Kleinasiatische Münzen II, p. 529, 7 (uncertain mint); J-N. Svoronos, JIAN 8-9 (1905), p. 166, 17, pl. V, 20 (Ennaia or Anaia, Karia); CNG E-367, 120; Roma Numismatics E-102, 327
Supposedly, Anaia was named after an Amazon who was born there. Although it was mentioned by Strabo, Pausanias, Stephanus of Byzantium, and Ephoros, we know very little about it.
We do know some Samians lived there during the Peloponnesian War and it was fortified by Samians after they were pushed out of their own island by Androkles of Ephesos.
It is not entirely known whether this coin is actually from Anaia, but current research believes it the most likely choice.
438 BCE
The famed Athenian playwright Sophocles is named general against the Anaians.
428 BCE