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311, Lot: 259. Estimate $100.
Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Phalanna. 330s BC. Æ Chalkous (15mm, 2.56 g, 5h). Laureate head of Apollo right / ΦAΛA, diademed female head right. Rogers 453; BCD Thessaly II 575.1. VF, dark green patina, light roughness, minor doubling on reverse. Rare and historically interesting.


From the BCD Collection.

A note from BCD from the Triton sale: According to Papaevangelou-Genakos, the wreathed portrait on this and the next coin (lot 575.2), were struck just after 352 BC to celebrate Philip’s victory at the battle of Crocus Field. This is too early for the style depicted on these coins. This writer believes that the issue was struck after the battle of Chaironeia in 338 BC. At that time Thessaly had been overrun by Philip who probably had his minions securely installed and in control of the major cities. It is this pro-Macedonian group in Phalanna that made sure the King’s victory would be suitably celebrated by a special issue featuring a wreathed Apollo on the obverse. See a very similarly styled coin [Nomos 4, 1049] dated by ASW to circa 340 BC.