Description: Thessaly, Pelinna, 3rd century BC. Veiled head of Sibyl Mantho right / ΠΕΛΙΝΝΑΙΟΩΝ; elmeted Thessalian rider charging right with couched lance.

Diameter: AE17 mm

Weight: 5,64 g

Grade: aVF/aVF

Attribution: BCD Thessaly 534.2; Rogers 142, 432; Moustaka 127, 136

Commentary: dark olive-green patina, some brown spots, good details

History: Mantho was a daughter of Teiresias, famous blind prophet of Thebes, turned into woman by Hera.

Article Number: 056-02-06-41652