bgr_286781 - THESSALY - THESSALIAN LEAGUE Drachme ou double victoriat
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Price : 280.00 €
Type : Drachme ou double victoriat
Date: c. 196-146 AC.
Mint name / Town : Larissa, Thessalie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 6,55 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Splendide exemplaire, particulièrement au revers. Le droit est légèrement décentré mais le nez de Zeus, bien qu’effleuré par le bord du flan, est encore présent. La monnaie a encore son brillant de frappe avec un début de patine grise orange autour des motifs
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES XVI, n° 38
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Zeus à droite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LÉGENDES GRECQUES VERTICALEMENT, AU-DESSUS D'ATHÉNA 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-LOK/ EPIKRA/ PA
Commentary
Poids lourd. Magistrats : Philocratès et Épicratès.
Heavyweight. Magistrates: Philocrates and Epicrates
Heavyweight. Magistrates: Philocrates and Epicrates
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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