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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 5483596, member: 110350"][USER=83845]@Curtisimo[/USER], your coin reminds me a little of this Athena, who also appears to have forgotten to get dressed this morning, in her eagerness to do battle.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thessaly, Thessalian League (under Roman Republic from 146 BCE, Province of Macedonia). Mid-late 1st century BCE, AR Stater ( = Double Victoriatus* = 1.5 denarius), Magistrates Italos and Diokles. Obv. Head of Zeus right, wearing oak wreath, [ITAΛOY] [<i>behind head</i>, <i>off flan</i>] / Rev. Helmeted Athena Itonia advancing right, holding shield with left hand and preparing to hurl spear with right hand; vertical legend ΘΕΣΣΑ-ΛΩN to left and right of Athena; ΔIO-KΛHΣ above spear, N-I across field. BCD** Thessaly II 874.4 [CNG, <i>The BCD Collection of the Coinage of Thessaly</i>, Triton XV Auction, Jan. 3, 2012, Lot 874.4 (<i>this coin</i>)]; HGC 4, 210; McClean II 4797-4798. 20 mm., 6.09 g., 12 h. [<i>According to Basil C. Demetriadi: From Hoard found Dec. 1996, West of Karditsa,Thessaly, Greece.</i>]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1239284[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>* CNG did not use the term “Double Victoriatus” in the Triton XV catalog, and has not used it in general since at least 2006, because of the absence of evidence that the term, rather than simply “stater,” was used contemporaneously in Thessaly.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>** BCD = Basil [a/k/a Vassili] C. Demetriadi.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 5483596, member: 110350"][USER=83845]@Curtisimo[/USER], your coin reminds me a little of this Athena, who also appears to have forgotten to get dressed this morning, in her eagerness to do battle. Thessaly, Thessalian League (under Roman Republic from 146 BCE, Province of Macedonia). Mid-late 1st century BCE, AR Stater ( = Double Victoriatus* = 1.5 denarius), Magistrates Italos and Diokles. Obv. Head of Zeus right, wearing oak wreath, [ITAΛOY] [[I]behind head[/I], [I]off flan[/I]] / Rev. Helmeted Athena Itonia advancing right, holding shield with left hand and preparing to hurl spear with right hand; vertical legend ΘΕΣΣΑ-ΛΩN to left and right of Athena; ΔIO-KΛHΣ above spear, N-I across field. BCD** Thessaly II 874.4 [CNG, [I]The BCD Collection of the Coinage of Thessaly[/I], Triton XV Auction, Jan. 3, 2012, Lot 874.4 ([I]this coin[/I])]; HGC 4, 210; McClean II 4797-4798. 20 mm., 6.09 g., 12 h. [[I]According to Basil C. Demetriadi: From Hoard found Dec. 1996, West of Karditsa,Thessaly, Greece.[/I]] [ATTACH=full]1239284[/ATTACH] * CNG did not use the term “Double Victoriatus” in the Triton XV catalog, and has not used it in general since at least 2006, because of the absence of evidence that the term, rather than simply “stater,” was used contemporaneously in Thessaly. ** BCD = Basil [a/k/a Vassili] C. Demetriadi.[/QUOTE]
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