Axum's King Endubis and the First Aksumite Gold Coins

Axum's King Endubis remains one of the most enigmatic figures of the kingdom's early coinage era. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore Endubis's gold coins—the first Aksumite currency struck in gold—and what they reveal about the kingdom's trade connections with Rome, India, and the Red Sea world. They discuss the iconography of the crescent-and-disk symbol, the Ge'ez and Greek inscriptions, and the mysterious delay between the introduction of silver and copper coins under Endubis's predecessor Zoskales and the later gold issues. What do these tiny metal disks tell us about Axum's ambitions, its conversion to Christianity, and its place in the global economy of late antiquity? This episode digs into the numismatic evidence and the controversies around dating Endubis's reign, with references to the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, the Adulis inscription, and the three-king theory of early Aksumite kings. #Axum #Endubis #AksumiteCoins #GoldStater #Numismatics #RedSeaTrade #Ge'ez #Greek #Periplus #Adulis #Mahrem #CrescentAndDisk #Zoskales #Kushans #RomanEmpire #LateAntiquity #EthiopianHistory #FexingoHistory Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo