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311, Lot: 352. Estimate $100.
Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Trikka. 4th century BC. Æ Dichalkon (17mm, 2.75 g, 1h). Head of the nymph Trikke right, wearing earring and necklace / TPIKKAIΩ–И (retrograde from the top, in two lines), warrior, nude but for crested helmet, advancing right, holding sword in right hand and shield in left. Rogers 553 var. (arrangement of ethnic); BCD Thessaly II 786.2 var. (И placed on opposite side of TPIKKAIΩ). Near VF, black patina, roughness.


From the BCD Collection.

A note from BCD from the Triton sale: Another case of “the conscientious die cutter” where he had to add the last letter of the ethnic (and what a change from earlier times when just the first few letters of the ethnic were considered more than adequate). See also above, lot 710.2, where the engraver corrected his mistake of forgetting a letter by adding it below the line of the inscription.