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Savoca Numismatik GmbH & Co. KG > Blue Auction 6Auction date: 7 April 2018
Lot number: 566

Lot description:


Macedon. Thessalonica. Gordian III. AD 238-244.
Bronze Æ

23mm., 10,80g.

AVT K M ANTΩNIΟC ΓOΡΔIANOC, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ΘECCAΛONIKEΩN NEΩKOΡΩN, ΠYΘ-IA, Apollo, nude, standing left, holding Kabeiros and branch.

very fine

Moushmov 6799 var.

The Pythian Games were one of the four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece. They were held in honour of Apollo every four years at his sanctuary at Delphi.