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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Greece| > |Thessaly| > GB87129
Orthos (Orthe), Thessaly, Greece, Mid-4th Century B.C.
|Thessaly|, |Orthos| |(Orthe),| |Thessaly,| |Greece,| |Mid-4th| |Century| |B.C.|, Most reference refer to this city as Orthe, probably in error. Little is known of Orthos except that it was located north of the modern Greek village of Kedros.
GB87129. Bronze dichalkon, BCD Thessaly II 497 (same rev. die); Traité IV 596 var. (same); HGC 4 699 (R1); Rogers 423 - 425 var. (different ethnic arrangements), aVF, well centered centered, dark patina, light marks and scratches, some light corrosion, die break reverse center, tiny edge split, Orthos (near Kedros, Greece) mint, weight 3.700g, maximum diameter 16.4mm, die axis 0o, mid-4th century B.C.; obverse head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet with raised earflap and ornamented with serpent and tendril; reverse upright trident, OPΘI arranged clockwise in two lines flanking trident, all within olive wreath; ex BCD with his round tag noting, "Ex Thessaly (via HK), April 2002, $125.-"; rare; SOLD










BCD Auction Catalogs

BCD Corinth. Numismatik Lanz. Münzen von Korinth: Sammlung BCD. Auction 105, München, 26 November 2001.
BCD Euboia. Numismatik Lanz. Münzen von Euboia: Sammlung BCD. Auction 111, Munich, 25 November 2002.
BCD Olympia. Leu Numismatics. Coins of Olympia: The BCD Collection. Auction 90, Zürich, 10 May 2004.
BCD Boiotia. Classical Numismatic Group. The BCD Collection of the Coinage of Boiotia. Triton IX Auction, Session 1, New York, 10 January 2006.
BCD Peloponnesos. LHS Numismatics. Coins of Peloponnesos. The BCD Collection. Catalog of public auction 96, Zürich, 8-9 May 2006.
BCD Peloponnesos II. Classical Numismatic Group. The BCD Collection of Coins of the Peloponnesos, Part II. Mail Bid Sale 81/2, 20 May 2009.
BCD Akarnania. Münzen & Medaillen (Deutschland). Sammlung BCD : Akarnanien und Aetolien. Auction 23, Stuttgart, 18 October 2007.
BCD Lokris. Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG. The BCD Collection, Lokris - Phokis. Auction 55, Zürich, 8 October 2010.
BCD Thessaly. Nomos AG, Auction IV. Coins of Thessaly, The BCD Collection. Zürich, 10 May 2011.
BCD Thessaly II. Classical Numismatic Group. The BCD Collection of the Coinage of Thessaly. Triton XV Auction, New York, 3 January 2012.

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