Herakles - DOUBLE VICTORIATUS. Thessaly. EF+
$172.50
Aug-08-01
Seller: herakles_inc

     Thessaly - Thessalian Confederacy
          196 - 1st Century B.C.
    AR Double Victoriatus. 6.006 grams.

      Obverse: Head of Zeus, r., crowned with oak; behind, monogram.

Reverse: Athena Itonia advancing r., brandishing spear and holding shield.
   SNG C 299.
 Extremely Fine+

 Following the great victory of the Roman general Flamininus over Philip V
of Macedon in 197 B.C., the freedom of the Greeks was proclaimed at Corinth
and a number of new autonomous coinages were intiated, including the double  victoriatus.