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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 6462293, member: 51347&quot;]<b>DOUBLE VICTORIATUS</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1258058[/ATTACH]</p><p>THESSALY, Thessalian League.</p><p>AR Double Victoriatus / Stater, 21mm, 5.7g, 12h; c. 50 BC.</p><p>Obv.: Laureate head of Zeus right.</p><p>Rev.: ΘEΣΣA-ΛΩN; Athena Itonia walking right, brandishing spear and holding shield; magistrates ΔAMOΘOI/NOΣ above, ΘIΛOΞENOΣ below.</p><p>Reference: SNG Copenhagen 299 var. (placement of names).</p><p><i>Ex: John Anthony</i></p><p>Comments:&nbsp; The Thessalian league was a loose confederation of feudal Greek city-states. After the Second Macedonian War (200-197 BCE), the victorious Roman general T. Quinctius Flamininus declared all of Greece &quot;free.&quot; He organized the Thessalian league, creating a federal council, the synedrion, with annually changing officers, strategoi. The seat of the league was in the largest Thessalian city, Larissa, and it continued to exist even after Thessaly became part of the new Roman province of Macedonia in 146 BC.</p><p>These medium-sized silver coins are what you might call Roman Republic provincials, and they were even given a name from RR nomenclature: double victoriatii.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>DOUBLE SHEKEL</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1258062[/ATTACH]</p><p>Zeugitania. Carthage</p><p>ca First Punic War, 264-241 BC.</p><p>Double Shekel,</p><p>26 mm., 13,9 gm.</p><p>Obv: Wreathed head of Tanit left</p><p>Rev: Horse standing right; star above.</p><p>SNG Copenhagen 185. Rare</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>DOUBLE LITRA</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1258064[/ATTACH]</p><p>Roman Republic</p><p>Anon</p><p>AE Double-Litra</p><p>275-270 BCE</p><p>Apollo</p><p>Lion</p><p>Sear 590 Craw 16-1a[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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