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311, Lot: 314. Estimate $100.
Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Proerna. 3rd century BC. Æ Dichalkon (19mm, 3.09 g, 12h). Head of nymph facing slightly right, wearing ampyx and [necklace] / ΠPOEPNIΩ[N], Demeter standing facing, head left, holding grain ears in right hand, long torch in left; ʘΦ to left. Rogers 534 var. (monogram in place of ΘΦ); BCD Thessaly II 719. VF, dark green-brown patina.


From the BCD Collection.

A note from BCD from the Triton sale: The letters ΘΦ here, as well as monograms of the same letters on other coins of Proerna refer to Phthia (ΦΘIA) the mythical name by which Southern Thessaly (including Proerna) was otherwise known. In Plato’s dialogue Criton, Socrates, while in jail and awaiting his execution, dreams of a beautiful woman in white who, referring to Phthia as an allegory for Paradise, tells him that he will soon “arrive at fertile Phthia”.