236, Lot: 103. Estimate $100.  
 
Thessaly, Thessalian League. Ca 170 BC. AE13mm, 2.13 g. 
Demetrias(?) mint. 

Macedonian shield with star in central boss
QESSALIWN, Kestrosphendone (dart sling). 

Warren, "Two Notes on Thessalian Coins", NC 1961, pl. I, 11; 
Rogers 4 var. (distribution of legend); SNG Cop -; SNG München -. 

Rare. 

Rogers thought that the object on the reverse of this 
coin was a lyre, but Jennifer Warren has argued that it is
a dart sling, or Kestrosfendone, first introduced during the Third Macedonian War between Rome and Perseus of Macedon. 

Used with permission of CNG coins, www.cngcoins.com, Jul, 2010