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Drachm
| Issuer | Thessalian League |
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| Year | 470 BC - 460 BC |
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| Value | Drachm (1) |
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| Reverse description | A stylized barley grain or wheat ear with pronounced hull rendered in bold relief, centrally placed within a shallow incuse square whose sides form a lozenge-shaped border. To the left of the grain appears the Greek letter Epsilon (Ε) and to the right the letter Theta (Θ), together forming an abbreviated ethnic or magistrate's mark. The incuse technique imparts a deeply recessed, geometric framing to the entire reverse design, consistent with archaic and early Classical Greek minting practice. |
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| Reverse lettering | Ε Θ |
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The Thessalian League coinage of this period predates the dominance of any single city-state within the federation, reflecting a rare moment of genuine collective monetary authority among the Thessalian ethnos. Issues attributable to this decade are among the earliest confirmed federal coinages in the Greek world — minted not by Larissa, Pharsalos, or Pherai acting alone, but under shared regional sanction.
BCD Thessaly I 1001 is a die-study anchor point for the early federal series. The BCD collection, assembled by a single private collector over decades, remains the most systematically documented Thessalian hoard assemblage ever cataloged.