A Caesarian Killed by Brutus

Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 487. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Thessalian League. Circa 196-27 BC. AR Stater (5.84 g, 11h). Petraios and Ptolemaios, magistrates. Struck circa 48/7-45/4 BC. Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath / Athena Itonia advancing right; ΠETP-AIOY above spear, ΠTOΛEMAIO[Σ] in exergue. McClean -; SNG Copenhagen 290. EF, lightly toned.

From Collection C.P.A. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 69 (8 June 2005), lot 276.

Petraios, strategos of the League, son of Themistogenes of Gyrton, was an ardent supporter of Julius Caesar (Caes., BC III, 35), and was executed by Brutus in 44 BC (Cic., Phil. 13. 33).