Description: Thessaly, Pherai, 404 - 369 BC. Draped bust of Ennodia right, torch before / ΦEPAION; lion’s head fountain spouting water right, fish swimming below.

Diameter: AE15 mm

Weight: 2,26 g

Grade: aVF/aVF

Attribution: Rogers 514

Commentary: rare; olive patina, well centered, good details with clear ethnic

History: Somewhere in 470s BC Jason became the successor of his father as a tyrant of Pherai and ruler of most Thessaly; he was seen by some (Isokrates) as a man who could unite whole Greece; he was however killed in 370 BC and the centre of power shifted to Macedonia.

Article Number: 025-04-03-41652