bgr_228911 - THESSALY - THESSALIAN LEAGUE Tetrobole ou denier
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Price : 145.00 €
Type : Tetrobole ou denier
Date: c. 196-146 AC.
Mint name / Town : Thessalie, Larissa
Metal : silver
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 3,92 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, ovale et irrégulier, échancré sur la légende au revers. Petit portrait de joli style à l’usure régulière avec le grènetis pratiquement complet. Décentré au revers
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES XIX, n° 70, de MONNAIES XXIV, n° 75, de MONNAIES 36, n° 122 et de MONNAIES 41, n°° 164
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE ; MONOGRAMME DERRIÈRE LA TÊTE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d'Apollon à droite.
Obverse legend : HR
Reverse
Reverse legend : LÉGENDES GRECQUES VERTICALEMENT.
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/ HG
Commentary
La légende est en partie rétrograde et commence en bas à gauche.
The legend is partly retrograde and starts at the bottom left
The legend is partly retrograde and starts at the bottom left
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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