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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Greece| > |Thessaly| > GB77207
The Perrhaiboi, Thessaly, Greece, 4th Century B.C.
|Thessaly|, |The| |Perrhaiboi,| |Thessaly,| |Greece,| |4th| |Century| |B.C.|, Oloösson was a town of the Perrhaebi tribe at the foot of Mount Olympus. Due to its location on the passes leading from the Thessalian plain to Macedonia, the site of Elassona was always of some strategic importance. In the early Byzantine period it was known as Lossonos, and was one of the sites refortified under Justinian I (r. 527-565). The modern name first appears in the writings of the 12th-century scholar and archbishop Eustathius of Thessalonica, who considered it "barbaric". At the turn of the 14th century, the Panagia Olympiotissa Monastery was founded on the hilltop citadel. In 1304, Guy II de la Roche, Duke of Athens, passed through during a campaign against the Despotate of Epirus. Unlike the rest of Thessaly, which was annexed by Greece in 1881, Elassona remained part of the Ottoman Empire until 1912, when it joined Greece (along with Crete, Macedonia and Epirus) following victory in the Balkan Wars.
GB77207. Bronze trichalkon, BCD Thessaly II 557, Rogers 438, SNG Cop 196, HGC 4 156, cf. BCD Thessaly I 1244 (tetrachalkon, inscription in one line on right), BMC Thessaly -, F, dark green patina, flan crack, some corrosion, marks and scratches, Olosson (Elassona, Greece) mint, weight 9.125g, maximum diameter 21.9mm, die axis 180o, 4th century B.C.; obverse veiled head of Hera facing slightly left, wearing necklace; reverse Zeus standing left, nude, thunderbolt in right hand, long scepter vertical in left hand, ΠEPPAI/BΩ-N (downward in two lines, the first on the right, the second divided on the left); SOLD











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