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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Greece| > |Thessaly| > GS84911
Pherai, Thessaly, Greece, c. 302 - 286 B.C.
|Thessaly|, |Pherai,| |Thessaly,| |Greece,| |c.| |302| |-| |286| |B.C.|, Pherae in southeastern Thessaly, was one of the oldest Thessalian cities. In Homer, Pherae was the home of King Admetus and his wife, Alcestis, (whom Heracles went into Hades to rescue), as well as their son Eumelus (who was one of the suitors of Helen and led the Achaean forces of Pherae and Iolcus in the Trojan War) (Iliad 2.711; Odyssey 4.798).

Ennodia (the name means, "the one in the streets") was a goddess identified in certain areas with Artemis, Hecate, or Persephone. Timarete of Corinth, who died in Pella, Macedonia in the late 5th century B.C., is the only attested priestess of this Goddess.

Hypereia was a fountain nymph. In the Iliad, Hector fears that Andromache may be enslaved and forced to draw water "from Messeis or Hypereia" in far-off Greece.
GS84911. Silver hemidrachm, BCD Thessaly 1321; BCD Thessaly II 714; SNG Cop 239;Traité IV 607 & pl. CCXCIV, 9; HGC 4 553; BMC Thessaly p. 48, 21 & pl. X, 15; Jameson 2474, VF, well centered on a tight flan, bumps and marks, light corrosion, Pherai mint, weight 2.596g, maximum diameter 16.0mm, die axis 0o, c. 302 - 286 B.C.; obverse head of Ennodia left, wearing myrtle wreath, triple-pendant earring, and necklace, torch behind; reverse nymph Hypereia standing left, resting right hand on a lion's head fountain, water gushing from the lion's mouth, her left hand on her waist, AS/TO in two lines within wreath lower left, ΦEPAIOYN downward on right; ex BCD Collection with his round tag; SOLD











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