Berge or Berga in Macedonia - or Thracia, King Bergaios, Pangaian district, ca. 400-350 BC., Chalkus, BMC 2-3.
Berge or Berga in Macedonia - or Thracia, Kings, Bergaios, a local Thracian king in the Pangaian district of Greece (?), ca. 400-350 BC.,
Chalkus / Æ 10 (10-11 mm / 0,95 g), bronze, irregular alignment ↑-> (ca. 120°),
Obv.: bearded head of Seilenos or Satyr facing right.
Rev.: BERΓ , fish r., legend below.
Peter p. 105 ; Mouchmov, Monnaies 38 ; BMC Thrace etc. 205, 2-3 ; SNG BM - ; SNG Cop. - ; SNG Stancomb 288 (a silver obol ??, SNGuk_1100_0288 , SNG Vol: XI 288 William Stancomb Collection ) .
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Berge or Berga (Greek: Î’ÎÏγα or Î’ÎÏγη) was an ancient Greek town in Bisaltia, north-west of Amphipolis, founded by Thasians as a dependent colony and emporion sometime in the 5th century BC and later colonized by 1000 Athenians. Later soures call it a polis. According to Strabo it was a village of the Bisaltae and Ptolemy writes that it was in the territory of the Odomanti. Bergaioi are listed in the Thracian phoros of the Delian League. If Bergaioi are related to Berge and not the king Bergaios, it suggests that it became Athenian colony/cleruchy after 429/8 BC, the last report of Bergaioi in the tribute lists.
Bergaios or Bergaeus (Greek: ΒεÏγαίος), 400 – 350 BC, was a Thracian king in the Pangaian region. He is known mainly from the several types of coins that he struck, which resemble those of Thasos. Bergaios could mean literally, 'a man from Berge (Bisaltia) but the legend on the coin is a personal, not a place name.