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Research Coins: Affiliated Auction

 
Sale: Nomos 3 & 4, Lot: 1047. Estimate CHF150. 
Closing Date: Monday, 9 May 2011. 
Sold For CHF1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Gonnos. Circa 350 BC or later . Dichalkon (Bronze, 19mm, 5.22 g 7). Head of nymph to right, her hair rolled and with a triple-pendant earring. Rev. ΓΟ-ΝΝΕ (retrograde, beginning in the exergue) Lion walking right. Rogers 226. SNG Copenhagen 53 (probably the same dies). Rare. Attractive, shiny reddish-brown patina. Reverse struck from a worn die, otherwise, About extremely fine.


It has been suggested that this coin was struck as a joint issue with Atrax (above, lot 31). However, this seems rather unlikely. The nymph’s head on the obverse is quite reminiscent of some of those from Lokroi, which also have triple-pendant earrings, and their date is probably similar.
A note from BCD: This is another coin that is very hard to find well centered and struck; as for it being a joint issue with Atrax, this suggestion is not valid. An issue could be called ‘joint’ when both ethnics are inscribed on the same coin. We cannot assume that coins having the same animal as a reverse type were ‘joint issues’, regardless of the meaning assigned to the term.