311, Lot: 321. Estimate $100. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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THESSALY, Skotoussa. Early 4th century BC. Æ Chalkous (13mm, 1.53 g, 3h). Head of youthful Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Kantharos; Σ–K flanking stem. BCD Thessaly II 739.2 = Wartenberg,
Philotas pl. III, A (same rev. die); otherwise unpublished. VF, green patina. Perhaps only the third known.
From the BCD Collection.
A note from BCD from the Triton sale: An important coin, being the stylistic link of Skotussa with the coinages of Philotas and Derdas, thus establishing a date bracket for this and the previous coin of this lot, 739.1, within the first two decades of the 4th century.