Petraios - Supporter of Caesar

251, Lot: 19. Estimate $150. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Thessalian League. Circa 196-27 BC. AR Stater (24mm, 6.15 g, 12h). Petraios and Ptolemaios, magistrates. Struck circa 48/7-45/4 BC. Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath / Athena Itonia advancing right. McClean -; SNG Copenhagen 290. VF.

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).