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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8169311, member: 110350&quot;]Both of these were originally sold at the 2012 Triton XV auction of the &quot;BCD Collection&quot;:</p><p><br /></p><p>Thessaly, Thessalian League (under Roman Republic from 146 BCE, Province of Macedonia). Late 2nd-mid 1st centuries BCE, AR Stater ( = Double Victoriatus* = 1.5 denarius), Magistrates Sosipatros and Gorgopas. Obv. Laureate head of Zeus right / 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; [ΣΩ]ΣIΠ-ATPOΣ above spear; ΓOPΓΩΠΑΣ in exergue. BCD Thessaly II 861.2 [CNG, <i>The BCD Collection of the Coinage of Thessaly</i>, Triton XV Auction, Jan. 3, 2012, Lot 861.2 (<i>this coin</i>)]; HGC 4, 209 [Hoover, Oliver, <i>Handbook of Coins of Northern and Central Greece: . . . Thessaly . . . ., Sixth to First Centuries BC, The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series,Vol. 4</i> (2014)]; SNG Soutzos 397 [Tsourti, E. and Trifiro, M.D., <i>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Greece 5: Numismatic Museum, Athens, The A. G. Soutzos Collection</i> (Athens, 2007)]; Klose pp. 339 &amp; 346, 2 (same dies) [Klose, D.O.A, &quot;<i>Zur Chronologie der thessalischen Koinonprägungen im 2. und 1. Jh. v. Chr.</i>, <i>Ein weiterer Schatzfund aus Südthessalien</i>,&quot; in Peter, Ulrike. ed., <i>Stephanos nomismatikos: Edith Schönert-Geiss zum 65. Geburtstag</i> (Berlin, 1998), at pp. 333-350]. 22 mm., 6.08 g., 2 h.&nbsp; [According to BCD: From Franke Hoard, Greece, found Summer 1983.]</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/thessaly-bcd-ii-861-2-triton-xv-jpg-paint-version-jpg.1166575/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></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 [Hoover, Oliver, <i>Handbook of Coins of Northern and Central Greece: . . . Thessaly . . . ., Sixth to First Centuries BC, The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series,Vol. 4</i> (2014)]; McClean II 4797-4798 [Grose, S., <i>Catalogue of the McClean Collection of Greek Coins, Fitzwilliam Museum, Vol. II, The Greek Mainland, the Aegean islands, Crete</i> (Cambridge, 1926)]. 20 mm., 6.09 g., 12 h.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/thessaly-bcd-ii-874-4-triton-xv-jpg-paint-version-jpg.1166576/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>* [Applicable to both coins] CNG did not use the term “Double Victoriatus” in the Triton XV catalog, and apparently has not used it in general since at least 2006, because of the absence of evidence that that term, rather than simply &quot;stater,&quot; was used contemporaneously in Thessaly.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Triton XV auction catalog can be viewed at <a href="https://issuu.com/cngcoins/docs/bcd_triton_xv_virtual_catalog" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://issuu.com/cngcoins/docs/bcd_triton_xv_virtual_catalog" rel="nofollow">https://issuu.com/cngcoins/docs/bcd_triton_xv_virtual_catalog</a> .</p><p><br /></p><p>Next, another coin from the BCD Collection.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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