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299, Lot: 26. Estimate $150.
Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Koinon of Thessaly. temp. Claudius(?). AD 41-54. Æ Assarion (18mm, 3.55 g, 12h). Lykos, strategos(?). ΛYKOY, laureate head of Apollo right / ΘEΣΣA-ΛΩ-И, wolf at bay right. Burrer –; BCD Thessaly II 930.1 (same dies); RPC Supp. S-1438B. Near VF, green patina, minor roughness. Very rare.


From the BCD Collection.

As this magistrate is only known from this issue and that of the following lot, dating is problematic. RPC tentatively gives the issue to Claudius based on the frequent appearance of retrograde letters on the League coinage of the ruler.