375, Lot: 321. Estimate $100. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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THESSALY, Thessalian League. Mid-late 1st century BC. Æ Tetrachalkon or Trihemiobol (24mm, 14.05 g, 1h). Eubiotos and Petraios, magistrates. Head of Zeus right, wearing oak wreath / ΘEΣΣA ΛΩ[N] 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; EYBIOTOY above, ΠETPAI[OΣ] 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). VF, dark green patina. Well centered and a good representation of this exceptional reverse design.
From the BCD Collection.