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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Macedonia| > |Thessalonika| > GB79940
Thessalonica, Macedonia, 88 - 31 B.C.
|Thessalonika|, |Thessalonica,| |Macedonia,| |88| |-| |31| |B.C.|, King Cassander of Macedonia founded Thessalonica in 315 B.C. He named it after his wife Thessalonike, a half-sister of Alexander the Great. The Romans made Thessalonica the capital of the Roman province of Macedonia 168 B.C.
GB79940. Bronze AE 26, AMNG III 19, pl. 23, 9; SNG ANS 804; SNG Cop 369; BMC Macedonia p. 112, 35, F, green patina, Thessalonika (Salonika, Greece) mint, weight 11.809g, maximum diameter 25.9mm, die axis 0o, 88 - 31 B.C.; obverse laureate head of Janus, I above; reverse two Centaurs prancing, back to back, each with cloak flying behind and holding a branch, ΘΕΣΣAΛO/NIKΗΣ in two lines in exergue; SOLD




  







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