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393, Lot: 25. Estimate $75.
Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Gomphoi-Philippopolis. Mid 4th-3rd centuries BC. Æ Trichalkon (21mm, 9.10 g, 6h). Head of nymph facing slightly left, wearing diadem and necklace / ΓOMΦE-ΩN, Zeus seated left, holding thunderbolt and scepter. Panagopoulou, Coinage pl. 1, 9 var.; Rogers 220, fig. 98 var.; BCD Thessaly II 70 var.; BCD Thessaly 1044 var.; HGC 4, 248. VF, reddish-brown patina.


From the BCD Collection.

Examples of this type in the standard references all have the left hand portion of the ethnic (“ΩN”) running downward rather than upward as on this coin.