311, Lot: 14. Estimate $100. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Atrax. Mid 4th century BC. Æ Dichalkon (18mm, 3.39 g, 6h). Youthful bare male head right; EYBA[TA] before / ATPA–ΓI–ΩИ, horse standing right. Cf. Rogers 165 (giving the obv. and rev. legends as EYBATAΣ and ATPAΓIΩ, respectively); BCD Thessaly II 58.7 var. (N instead of И); BCD Thessaly I 1403 var. (same); Weber 2797 corr. (obv. legend not noted; same obv. die). VF, black patina.

From the BCD Collection.

A note from BCD from the Triton sale: This is one of the few cases where the sponsor’s (or magistrate’s according to ASW – see the above Nomos 4 reference) name is written almost in full. The mint at Atrax must have flourished, together with the polis, around the middle of the 4th century. We probably owe this proliferation of unusual silver and bronze coin ideas to some imaginative mint-master or a progressive city council, or both.