Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 3479 Session 11 (9:30am Thursday) Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $300
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SOLD $200
THESSALY, Thessalian Confederacy or League, silver stater (double victoriatus or one and a half denarii), 196-146 B.C., (BCD suggests mid-late 1st century B.C.), (6.32 g), Italos and Diokles, magistrates, struck at Larissa mint, obv. head of Zeus right, crowned with a laureate wreath in oak across, **ITALOU* behind, Rev. **QESSA* to left, **LWN* to right, the Thessalian Pallas, Athena Itonia advancing right, brandishing spear and holding shield, above **DIO KLH[S]*, N I to left and right of Athena legs, plain below shield and in exergue, (cf.S.2233, Triton XV 874.4, SNG Cop. 277 (Pl.6), McClean 4797 (p.231, cf.Pl.178). Bright and extremely fine, rare.
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