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Message:: [QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 8242535, member: 96898"]Very attractive coins and an interesting write-up! I am still lon the look for a coin of Thebes or the Boeotian league, but my collection contains coins minted for some other Greek leagues. [ATTACH=full]1450955[/ATTACH] Achaian League (Arcadia, Pallantion), AR hemidrachm, early 1st century BC. Obv: head of Zeus r. Rev: AX (Achaian League) monogram; Π-A-Λ in fields, upright trident below; all within wreath. 16mm, 2.20g Ref: Clerk 217; BCD Peloponnesos 1592; Benner 1. [ATTACH=full]1450956[/ATTACH] Thessaly, Thessalian League, AR drachm, mid-late 2nd century BC. Obv: head of Apollo, laureate, r.; behind ΓAYANA (eroded). Rev: ΘΕΣΣΑΛΩΝ; Athena Itonia striding right, hurling spear, shield on arm; in fields, , Π-Ο-Λ-Y; to r., grape. 18mm, 3.90g. Ref: BCD Thessaly II 819. [ATTACH=full]1450957[/ATTACH] Phokis, Federal Coinage, triobol, ca. 490–485 BC. Obv: frontal bull's head. Rev: head of Artemis r. set diagonally in incuse square, Φ-O[-K-I] around. 13mm, 2.63g. Ref: see BCD Lokris–Phokis 189; see Williams 1972, no. 17.[/QUOTE]