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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ardatirion, post: 1571345, member: 9204&quot;]I haven&#039;t bought a &#039;good&#039; coin in a few years, aside from my tesserae, but I just couldn&#039;t allow this one to go cheap. And while I never actively collected Greek coins, I see too many of them at work to not gain an appreciation of their art. What first caught my eye was the toning; even at arm&#039;s length I could tell this was an old coin. And I was right - the coin sold twice in the 1920&#039;s, once in the 30&#039;s, and once in the late 50&#039;s, from whence it went underground until 2005, when it sold in a German auction to BCD - undoubtedly the greatest Greek collector of our age. BCD&#039;s collection of central Greek coins has been selling at auction since 2001 and the catalogs now serve as the standard reference for the region. For those wondering, the Oitaioi were a Thessalian mountain tribe. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/18271/2900057.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>THESSALY, The Oitaioi.</b> Circa 167-146 BC. </p> <p style="text-align: center">AR Hemidrachm (15mm, 2.30 g, 1h)</p> <p style="text-align: center">Lion’s head left, spear in its jaws</p> <p style="text-align: center">OITAI downward to right, ΩN downward to left, Herakles standing facing, holding club in both hands </p> <p style="text-align: center">Valassiadis 9; BCD Thessaly II 494 (same obverse die)</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">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</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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