Lot 3609

Description

Thessaly, Magnetes, Trebonianus Gallus, (251-253), AE diassarion, 19mm, (5.10 g), obv. laureate head of Trebonianus Gallus to right, around **[G*OV upwards **GALL*O[C], border of dots, rev. AP**GWMAG -NHTWN* from lower left, right up and circular retrograde and inverted, the ship Argo with rowers, to right, border of dots, (S.-, Rogers 380 var. [legend differently arranged]). Very fine, unusually well centred for the type, the flan a little small for the design and letters, extremely rare maybe unique.

Ex CNG Triton XV, 3 January 2012 (lot 444) with CNG ticket, where it realised $1000US.
The Argonauts ('Argo sailors') were a band of heroes in Greek mythology, who in the years before the Trojan War (around 1300 BC) accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece. Jason's uncle Pelias had usurped the throne of Iolcos in Thessaly, which rightfully belonged to Jason's father, Aeson.