151, Lot: 50. Estimate $100. Sold for $125. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Thessalian League. Circa 196-27 BC. AR Double Victoriatus (22mm, 6.13 g). Hippoloxos and Atrestides, magistrates. Head of Zeus right wearing an oak crown / Athena Itonia walking right, brandishing spear and holding shield; [HIP]POL-OCOS above, [A]TRESTI[DES] below. McClean 4923-7. Good VF, obverse die shift.

From the Richard Winokur Collection.

The double victoriati belong to the federal currency introduced after the battle of Kynoskephalai in 196, when the Thessalians were proclaimed free by Flamininus.