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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Greece| > |Thessaly| > GS88330
Thessalian League, Greece, c. 146 - 100 B.C.
|Thessaly|, |Thessalian| |League,| |Greece,| |c.| |146| |-| |100| |B.C.|, The Thessalian League was a loose confederacy of city-states and tribes in the Thessalian valley in N. Greece. Philip II of Macedon took control of Thessaly in 344 B.C and it remained under Macedonia until the Roman victory in 197 B.C. The league was reestablished in 196 B.C. but had little autonomy after Thessaly became part of the province of Macedonia in 146 B.C.
GS88330. Silver drachm, BCD Thessaly II 819; SNG Cop 300; SNG Alpha Bank 293; McClean 4958; BMC Thessaly p. 4, 36; HGC 4 213 (S), aVF, rainbow toning, tight flan, struck a little flat, porosity, spots of corrosion, probably struck at Larissa mint, weight 4.078g, maximum diameter 16.9mm, die axis 0o, magistrates Gauana and Poly..., c. 146 - 100 B.C.; obverse laureate head of Apollo right, ΓAYANA (magistrate's name) downward behind; reverse ΘEΣΣA/ΛΩN in two vertical lines, upward on right, then downward on left, Athena Itonia striding right, hurling spear with right hand, shield on her left arm, bunch of grapes outer right, Π-O/Λ-Y (magistrate) in two divided lines across lower inner field; SOLD











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