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v38_0157 - THESSALY - THESSALIAN LEAGUE Drachme ou double victoriat

THESSALY - THESSALIAN LEAGUE Drachme ou double victoriat MS
MS
MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 225.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
Realised price : 230.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 230.00 €
Type : Drachme ou double victoriat
Date: c. 196-146 AC.
Mint name / Town : Larissa
Metal : silver
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 6,14 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, légèrement décentré au droit, parfaitement centré au revers. Beau portrait de Zeus. Revers fantastique avec une Athéna de haut relief et de toute beauté où tous les détails sont visibles. Magnifique patine de médaillier avec des reflets mordorés et bleutés acier
Catalogue references :
BMC.32  - Cop.-

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Zeus à droite.

Reverse

Reverse legend : LÉGENDES GRECQUES VERTICALEMENT, AU-DESSUS D'ATHÉNA, DANS LE CHAMP ET À L'EXERGUE :.
Reverse description : Athéna Itonia combattante marchant à droite, brandissant une javeline transversale de la main droite et tenant un bouclier de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : QESSA//LWN/ FI-LOKRA/ [FE]REKRATHS/ TU/OS.
Reverse translation : (des Thessaliens/ Philocratios et Pherecratès).

Commentary

Magistrats : Philocratios et Pherecratès.

Historical background

THESSALY - THESSALIAN LEAGUE

(196-146 BC)

Thessaly was an agricultural and livestock region with wide open spaces. It was renowned for its horses and riders. The coinage of the Confederation would have been made in the most important city of Thessaly, Larissa, name which comes from the daughter of Pelasgos. The city was built on the banks of the Peneios. In 197, General Flaminius won a very great victory at Cynoscephalus over Philip V of Macedon who had supported Hannibal and Carthage during the Second Punic War (221-202 BC). For the first time since Philip II, the freedom of the Greeks was proclaimed in 196 in Corinth on the occasion of the Isthmian Games. Many leagues were then formed. The Thessalian League was one of the most powerful. In 146 BC, it was dissolved and Thessaly integrated into the new province of Macedonia.

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