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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 4906031, member: 57495&quot;]Photographed and did a bit more research into this nice bronze of Skotussa.&nbsp; It is the same type as BCD Thessaly I 1343, the catalogue notes of which are interesting for highlighting a disagreement between the cataloger (Alan Walker) and the consigner (BCD) regarding who&#039;s depicted on the obverse of the coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1183717[/ATTACH]<b>THESSALY, Skotussa</b></p><p>AE Trichalkon. 5.38g, 20mm. THESSALY, Skotoussa, late 3rd century - 2nd century BC. Rogers 546 var. (ethnic); BCD Thessaly I 1343; HGC 4, 615. O: Head of Athena right, wearing close-fitting helmet adorned with crest and plume. R: Bridled horse prancing right; ΣKO below.</p><p><i>Ex BCD Collection (with his handwritten tag noting, &quot;T/ne ex Thessaly, Oct. 86, 8000 dr&quot;) </i></p><p><b>Alan Walker, in Nomos Auction 4 notes</b>: <i>&quot;This coin type is usually dated to the 3rd century BC but it probably is later, almost certainly 2nd century.&nbsp; This is because the helmet of Athena is strikingly similar in basic form to that worn by Roma on early denarii, struck from c. 211 until the earlier 2nd century (as Crawford 51 ff. - of course the Roma&#039;s helmet bears a wing rather than a plume, but the shape is the same).&quot;</i></p><p><b>BCD notes</b>: <i>&quot;Head, in his Historia Numorum 2, p. 310, identified the obverse of this and of the next lot as &quot;Ares(?)&quot; and this writer tends to agree with him rather than with ASW.&nbsp; Admittedly, the similarity with the obverses of lots 1257 and 1258 above is not striking but, then, the Skotussa coins are much later.&quot;</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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