363, Lot: 99. Estimate $100. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Thessalian League. Mid-late 1st century BC. Æ Tetrachalkon or Trihemiobol (24mm, 18.26 g, 1h). Eubiotos and Petraios, magistrates. Head of Zeus right, wearing oak wreath / ΘEΣ[ΣA] Λ[ΩN] to left and right, Taurokathapsia scene: The hero Thessalos jumping from his horse, in background galloping right, onto a bull running right, the head of which he restrains with a band held in both of his hands; [EYB]IOT[OY] above, ΠETPAIOΣ below. Rogers 58, fig. 11 corr. (rev. scene); BCD Thessaly I 1391; BCD II 897.1-4 corr. (laurel wreath); HGC 4, 222 corr. (laurel wreath). Near VF, dark green patina, struck slightly off-center.

From the BCD Collection.