Circa 330-300 BCE
Æ 1.37g, 13mm, 12h
Head of Athena to left, wearing taenia /
Ornate trident head; dolphin upwards to left, TPO downwards to right
BCD Peloponnesos 1338 and 1339.2; Traité III, 703; HGC 5, 804
Troizen was a friendly city to Athens and during the second Persian War, when Athens was destroyed, its inhabitants fled to Troizen.
According to mythology, Aithra, the daughter of the city’s found Pittheus, slept with both Aigaios and Poseidon in the same night and became pregnant with Theseus in Troizen. It is also the setting of Euripides play Hippolytus.