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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kazuma78, post: 4571865, member: 17304&quot;]This is one of my hoard coins, likely from the Sitichoro hoard found near Pharsalus in Thessaly in 1968. None of this type were known until that hoard and all coins in the hoard were mint state- which makes me pretty confident it is from that hoard.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1131978[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>175-170 BC</p><p>Obverse: Head of Helios three-quarter facing, right, imitating Rhodian issues. Reverse: Rose, bud right, magistrate’s name above. Silver, 14-15 mm approx., 2.54 g. (*Diameter unrecorded prior to encapsulation) Authority/ruler: Perseus of Macedon (c. 212-166 BC) Catalog info: Ashton 15 or similar. NGC Ch MS; Strike 5/5, Surface 5/5; cert. #4166130-001.</p><p><br /></p><p>Provenance: Lord Marcovan&#039;s &quot;Eclectic Box Collection&quot;, Colosseo Collection, 3/2014. Previously Harlan J. Berk Sale #186, Lot 90; ex-Philip Davis collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Believed to have been struck to pay Cretan mercenaries during the Third Macedonian War, in imitation of Rhodian issues, which they would have been familiar.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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