Hi all,
I recently got a lot of unattributed coins from Thessaly. I am starting my
identification process and this is the first one. I think it is a coin from
Larissa, I am thinking
SNG Cop 143 and I also found a reference as
Rogers 294. If this isn't a
Larissa coin, I am way off base. The letters on the
reverse are quite difficult to read. My biggest worry is that this coin seems possibly underweight compared to most examples I found online.
This one is
AE15 and 1.44 grams at 0 degrees.
Examples online I have found so far are
AE16-17 and between 3.6 and 4.0 grams. These are
Rogers 294 and
SNG Cop 143 and 143.1
But there is one example identified as
SNG Cop 143.1 that is
AE14 and 1.78 grams.
Looking at the
Sear Greek Europe volume, it also has one smaller bronze (
AE12) with the
head of the nymph and
horse on the
reverse facing opposite from my coin, but otherwise very similar.
I found
Rogers online as a PDF and the reference of 294 does seem spot on, although 295 and 296 looks close, as well. I highly recommend this book, The Copper Coinage of Thessaly, by The Very Reverend Edgar
Rogers, 1932, for anyone interested in these coins, based on my perusal of it so far, it is available as a scanned PDF with a link on
Numiswiki.
So, I am thinking am on track here. Thanks for any comments.
Thanks,
Virgil