372, Lot: 273. Estimate $75. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Koinon of Thessaly. Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Trihemiassarion(?) (21mm, 4.59 g, 7h). Aristion, strategos. ΝΕΡΩΝ Θ EΣΣΑΛΩΝ, radiate head right / [ΑΡΙ]ΣΤΙ Ω ΝOΣ ΣΤΡΑΤΗ ΓΟV, 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. Burrer Em. 1, 32.1 corr. (A8a/R26 – this coin; incorrect rev. die image); BCD Thessaly I –; BCD Thessaly II 931.2 var. (same obv. die; monogram on rev.); RPC I 1440. Near VF, pale green patina, minor roughness.

From the BCD Collection.