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325, Lot: 8. Estimate $100.
Sold for $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Thessalian League. Mid-late 1st century BC. Æ Chalkous or Hemiobol (18mm, 6.61 g, 12h). Python, magistrate. Helmeted head of Athena right; ΠΥΘΩ–NO[Σ] above and behind / Demeter standing facing, holding up two grain ears in each hand. Burrer p. 62; Rogers 60; BCD Thessaly II 909.5. VF, dark brown patina.


From the BCD Collection.

This magistrates seems to be the same that signed silver staters (BCD Thessaly II 848) and drachms (BCD Thessaly II 849). he staters have been dated to 49-40 BC by both Franke and Helly.