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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4154948, member: 57495"]Excellent writeup of a very nice coin! Sweet surprise provenance too. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here's mine from Larissa Kremaste, with the AX monogram worked into the shield (of Achilles) carried by Thetis. This coin was from a group lot, and also came with a surprise provenance, to the Henry Clay Lindgren Collection. It is illustrated in his book "<i>Ancient Greek Bronze Coins: European mints"</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1072740[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>THESSALY, Larissa Kremaste</b></p><p>AE Trichalkon. 5.38g, 19mm. THESSALY, Larissa Kremaste, 3rd century BC. Rogers 315; Lindgren II 1401 (<i>this coin illustrated</i>); BCD Thessaly II 403.1; HGC 4, 13. O: Head of Achilles left. R: ΛΑΡΙ, Thetis seated left on hippocamp, holding shield of Achilles with AX monogram.</p><p><i>Ex BCD Collection; ex Henry Clay Lindgren Collection</i></p><p> [ATTACH=full]1072741[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And here's one from Halos, with the locally worshipped and ominously named Zeus Laphystios (Zeus the 'Devourer’) on the obverse. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1072743[/ATTACH]<b>THESSALY, Halos</b></p><p>AE Dichalkon. 5.34g, 20.1mm. THESSALY, Halos, 3rd century BC. Reinders Series 6; Rogers 241; BCD Thessaly 85; HGC 4, 4. O: Diademed head of Zeus Laphystios (Zeus the 'Devourer’) right. R: ΑΛΕΩΝ, Phrixos hanging on to ram flying right; AX monogram to left.</p><p><i>Ex BCD Collection</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4154948, member: 57495"]Excellent writeup of a very nice coin! Sweet surprise provenance too. :) Here's mine from Larissa Kremaste, with the AX monogram worked into the shield (of Achilles) carried by Thetis. This coin was from a group lot, and also came with a surprise provenance, to the Henry Clay Lindgren Collection. It is illustrated in his book "[I]Ancient Greek Bronze Coins: European mints"[/I]. [ATTACH=full]1072740[/ATTACH] [B]THESSALY, Larissa Kremaste[/B] AE Trichalkon. 5.38g, 19mm. THESSALY, Larissa Kremaste, 3rd century BC. Rogers 315; Lindgren II 1401 ([I]this coin illustrated[/I]); BCD Thessaly II 403.1; HGC 4, 13. O: Head of Achilles left. R: ΛΑΡΙ, Thetis seated left on hippocamp, holding shield of Achilles with AX monogram. [I]Ex BCD Collection; ex Henry Clay Lindgren Collection[/I] [ATTACH=full]1072741[/ATTACH] And here's one from Halos, with the locally worshipped and ominously named Zeus Laphystios (Zeus the 'Devourer’) on the obverse. [ATTACH=full]1072743[/ATTACH][B]THESSALY, Halos[/B] AE Dichalkon. 5.34g, 20.1mm. THESSALY, Halos, 3rd century BC. Reinders Series 6; Rogers 241; BCD Thessaly 85; HGC 4, 4. O: Diademed head of Zeus Laphystios (Zeus the 'Devourer’) right. R: ΑΛΕΩΝ, Phrixos hanging on to ram flying right; AX monogram to left. [I]Ex BCD Collection[/I][/QUOTE]
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