MASSALIA

Tribe of Gallia Narbonensis, centred on Massalia (Marseilles), a Greek city founded c.600 BC by emigrants of Phocaea (now Focha, two seaports on the gulf of Izmir, west Turkey) who quit their country to escape Persian tyranny.

Massalia Bull MA. Massalia? c.2nd cent. BC. Cast bronze unit. 15-19mm. 3.97g. Head of Apollo facing left./ Bull butting right, MA above. ABC 115, LT—, Blanchet fig. 92, BN 1966-67. Gd VF, glossy brown patina, super bull, clear MA. Ex Anthony Levine collection, bt. Chris Rudd (2017), ex Ian Thompson collection. Found Chichester, W.Sussex, 11.11.1998. VERY RARE only about 20 others recorded from the UK.                                                                  Was £275. Now only £250