311, Lot: 30. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Gomphoi-Philippopolis. Mid 4th-3rd centuries BC. Æ Trichalkon (23mm, 7.18 g, 7h). Head of nymph facing slightly left, wearing stephane and necklace; c/m: eagle with closed wings standing right within circular incuse / [ΓOM]Φ[E]–ΩN, Zeus Palamnaios seated left, holding thunderbolt in right hand and scepter in left. Panagopoulou, Coinage pl. 1, 10 (with uncertain c/m); Rogers 220; BCD Thessaly II 72.3 (with same c/m). VF, green and reddish–brown patina.

From the BCD Collection.

The “E” of ΓOMΦEΩN appears to have been filled in, unless it was omitted from the die entirely.

A note from BCD from the Triton sale: This countermark that only occurs on 3rd century Gomphi coins looks Ptolemaic, at least to this writer. The involvement of Ptolemy III in the affairs of Greece is well known but up to now there was no evidence of his activity in north-west Thessaly. Perhaps this countermark was applied for some unknown reason connected with a local political development, the details of which have not come down to us.