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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2790712, member: 57495&quot;]Thanks!&nbsp; It&#039;s a pity Steve is not back yet, or we&#039;d be getting to see a good number of his beautiful Thessalian coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This other one from Pherai I have is not pretty, but it is rare and pretty interesting! </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]648118[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>THESSALY, Pherai</b></p><p>Rare. Repaired. AR Hemiobol. 0.27g, 8.3mm. THESSALY, Pherai, circa 360s-350s BC. BCD Thessaly II 694; Imhoof-Blumer 1908, p. 93, 277, pl. VI, 38; see also Nomos 4, 1306 corr. O: Head of Ennodia right: R: Φ-E, hunting dog sitting right.</p><p><i>Ex BCD Collection</i></p><p><br /></p><p>The obverse has a portrait of the Thessalian goddess Ennodia, whose chief centre of worship was the city of Pherai. Ancient writers identified her with Artemis and Hecate, and like them, she was often shown bearing a torch and in the company of a dog. Ennodia&#039;s name means &quot;the one on the road&quot;, and she was a goddess of witchcraft, ghosts, poisons and childbirth. In later centuries, the worship of Ennodia spread to Argos, Kolophon, Macedonia, Sikyon, and also Athens, where the cult of Artemis Pheraia was attested to by Pausanius.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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