366, Lot: 479. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Thessalian League. Mid-late 1st century BC. Æ Tetrachalkon or Trihemiobol (23mm, 17.05 g, 12h). Eubiotos and Petraios, magistrates. Head of Zeus right, wearing oak wreath / [ΘEΣΣA] ΛΩN [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; [EV]BIOTOV above, [ΠETP]AIOΣ 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-brown patina.

From the BCD Collection.