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Rare Mopsion Bronze

183, Lot: 46. Estimate $400.
Sold for $365. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Mopsion. Circa 350 BC. Æ 19mm (7.56 g, 10h). Laureate head of Zeus facing slightly right; [thunderbolt] to right / The Lapith Mopsos, standing facing and wielding club, about to strike centaur who stands left, holding a boulder above head. SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; McClean 4648. Good Fine, brown patina, porous. Extremely rare, see Triton X (9-10 January 2007), lot 182 for a coin of the same type that sold for $18,000.


Mopsion, a small town situated on a hill between Larissa and Tempe, was named after Mopsos, the son of Amphykos. He was gifted with the power to understand the speech of birds, and traveled with Jason and the Argonauts as their seer. Mopsos met his death in Libya when he was bitten by a poisonous serpent that had sprung from the blood of Medusa's head.