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Online Auction 36 | Silver  31 Aug 2019
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Lot 40

Starting price: 75 EUR
Price realized: 280 EUR
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Islands of Thessaly. Ikos circa 300-200 BC.
Dichalkon Æ

17 mm., 3,99 g.

Bearded and wreathed head of Poseidon right / I-K-I-Ω-N, four-pronged trident downwards, with dolphins on either side swimming upwards.

nearly very fine

BCD Thessaly I -; BCD Thessaly II -; Rogers E. -; Imhoof-Blumer, Monnaies grecques -; Babelon, Traité IV -; Savoca Numismatik, Blue Auction 10, Lot 255.

Ikos, is one of the group of islands off the coast of Magnesia in Thessaly, lay near Peparethos, and was colonised at the same time by the Cnossians of Crete. It was a member of the Delian League, and became a Macedonian possession in 338 BC.
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