Ancients => Oitaioi => man, what a horrible bunch of SCRABBLE letters, eh?

*WHOA* ==>> somebody must have waxed the wagon's flat-deck, for I slipped right off this morning!! (I actually slipped-off, climbed back onto the wagon and then slipped-off three more times!!) ...




eh-heh-heh ...

... here is the first and probably my favourite of the "4" Wagon Coins!!

THESSALY, Oitaioi. AR Hemidrachm
Circa 360-344 BC
Diameter: 16 mm
Weight: 2.83 grams
Obverse: Head of lion left, spear in jaws
Reverse: Herakles standing facing, holding club
Reference: Valassiadis 3; BCD Thessaly II 489; SNG Copenhagen 181
Other: 11h ... find patina, minor roughness

 

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I've got one of those too, but mine has a *slightly* longer pedigree:

THESSALY, The Oitaioi. Circa 167-146 BC.
AR Hemidrachm (15mm, 2.30 g, 1h)
Herakleia Trachinia mint
Lion’s head left, spear in its jaws
OITAI downward to right, ΩN downward to left, Herakles standing facing, holding club in both hands
Valassiadis 9; BCD Thessaly II 494 (same obverse die)

Ex BCD Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 290), lot 57; Peus 384 (2 November 2005), lot 199; Vinchon (20 May 1959), lot 483; M. Ratto 11 (16 May 1935), lot 239; R. Ratto (4 April 1927), lot 1023; Naville-Ars Classica V (18 June 1923), lot 1764​

 

Beautiful coins, both of you.

 

Beautiful coins Steve and Bill!

 

Very nice guys. I have nothing to compare to them. Congratulations.

 

Steve, once again great looker, Lion head is off the chart, very nice...

 

Hey steve, is that lion smoking a cigar?

 

Steve, I thought Mrs. Stevex threw you on the wagon for a month.

I hope you don't have to do any madroosing...

 

madroosex6

 

Thanks for the coin-compliments, gang!!

=> oh, and great coin, Ardy (thanks for posting, my CNG bro)

 

CNG?

 

http://www.cngcoins.com/About+CNG.aspx

2nd numismatist from the bottom.

 

Wow, it's nice to hear from Windchild (thanks for the "like", my ol' young friend)

=> as I stated earlier in our communication => "we miss ya"

Glad to hear that school/studies are going well

 

=> hey Ardy, I'm a bit curious why your awesome example has quite a different date than my example and/or most of the examples that I've found on Wildwinds, etc? (how did you determine that your sweetie was from that era?)

 

Those are wonderful! Adding to the Want list.

 

Ah ha, very nice.

 

sweet little coins guys! i like the hercules, not quite facing, but not to the side....there's a term for that i know but it escapes me...very nice wagon buster stevex!

i'm still on the wagon for severl more weeks...
stupid wagon!

 

That stupid, stupid wagon and its stupid, stupidness!!

 

Hey, that lion looks like he's chomping at the bit. Bet that was kinda like how you looked pre-auction, eh.
Excellent coin, as usual!

 

Quoted for truth.