PHALANNA THESSALY AE13_______Trojan War & Thermopylae______ARES & PRANCING HORSE

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FRASCATIUS ANCIENTS
A BEAUTIFUL BRONZE CHALKOUS OF PHALANNA THESSALY FROM CIRCA 322 BC .
The Perrhaebi people of Phalanna took part in the Trojan War under Guneus and also fought in the Battle of Thermopylae.
SCARCER PHALANNA TYPE
FROM THE BCD COLLECTION. HAND WRITTEN ROUND BCD CARD INCLUDED, DATED: FALL 1995
THE SIZE IS 13.3 MM AND 1.64 GRAMS.
Rogers 457; BCD Thessaly I 1258; BCD Thessaly II 577; HGC 4, 182
OBVERSE – Helmeted head of Ares right
REVERSE – Horse prancing right
THE BCD COLLECTION
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PHALANNA
Phalanna was a town and polis of the Perrhaebi in ancient Thessaly, situated on the left bank of the Peneius, southwest of Gonnus. Phalanna was said to have derived its name from a daughter of Tyro. Phalanna is mentioned by Livy as near Mylae and Gyrton during the Third Macedonian War between the Romans and Perseus of Macedon in 171 AD.
The Perrhaebi were an ancient Pelasgian people who lived in northern Thessaly. They took part in the Trojan War under Guneus and also fought in the Battle of Thermopylae. Their capital was Phalanna. Through most of their history they were overshadowed and controlled by Thessaly, although they had two votes at the Delphic Amphictyony. Philip II of Macedon freed the Perrhaebi from Thessaly and took their kingdom for Macedonian control, under which it remained until Roman conquest in 196 BC. They were listed in Xerxes' vast army by Herodotus.
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