311, Lot: 333. Estimate $100. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Skotoussa. Mid 4th century BC. Æ Chalkous (13mm, 0.97 g, 3h). Head of bearded Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath / Σ–[K]–O–T, grape bunch on stalk hanging from vine. Rogers –; BCD Thessaly II 748.2 (possibly same obv. die, but very different rev. style). Near VF, green patina, striking edge split.

From the BCD Collection.

A note from BCD from the Triton sale: There must have been several die cutters working on the dies of this bronze fraction, as on the few known coins, all the obverse styles as well as the shapes of the grape bunches are clearly from different hands. There is of course another possibility, and just because the mint in question is Skotussa, it should not be thought of as absurd: there was only one die-cutter working on these small dies for this bronze fraction and, just to make his work more interesting, he consciously engraved differently styled heads and grape bunches on the various dies he was called upon to prepare.