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Thessaly, Skotussa.
3rd century BC. Æ chalkous, 2.59 g. Thessalian helmet with earpiece right, border of dots / [ΣKOTOYΣ ΣAIΩN] sheep standing on club right. BCD Thessaly I 1345. Extremely fine. Rogers calls the animal on the reverse of this coin a ram but the head is small and with hardly any horns. ASW in Nomos 4, 1345 believes it is a horse or a hound. It has even been called a leopard by a collector.
3rd century BC. Æ chalkous, 2.59 g. Thessalian helmet with earpiece right, border of dots / [ΣKOTOYΣ ΣAIΩN] sheep standing on club right. BCD Thessaly I 1345. Extremely fine. Rogers calls the animal on the reverse of this coin a ram but the head is small and with hardly any horns. ASW in Nomos 4, 1345 believes it is a horse or a hound. It has even been called a leopard by a collector.