Interesting Celetor’s Correction

366, Lot: 478. Estimate $75. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Thessalian League. Mid-late 1st century BC. Æ Dichalkon or Obol (21mm, 8.81 g, 12h). Nikokrates and Eubiotos, magistrates. Laureate head of Apollo right; kithara to left / ΘEΣ[ΣA] ΛΩN above and below, Artemis Ennodia advancing right, holding torch in each hand; NIKOKPATHΣ to left, [EVBIOTOV] to right. Rogers 56, fig. 9 corr. (Eubiotos not mentioned); BCD Thessaly I 1392 corr. (kithara not mentioned); BCD Thessaly II 909.1; HGC 4, 220. VF, dark green patina, a few pits and slightly off-center strike on the reverse.

From the BCD Collection.

The engraver for this coin apparently forgot the letter ‘A’ in the name of Nikokrates, as it was inserted above the letter ‘P’ after the fact.