Petraios – Supporter of Julius Caesar

337, Lot: 60. Estimate $150. Sold for $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Thessalian League. Mid-late 1st century BC. AR Stater (24mm, 6.13 g, 12h). Petraios and Ptolemaios, magistrates. Head of Zeus right, wearing oak wreath / ΘEΣΣA ΛΩN, Athena Itonia right; ΠET-PAIO[V] above; ΠTOΛEMAIOΣ in exergue. BCD Thessaly II 887.2 var. (arrangement of first magistrate’s name). Good VF, some light cleaning marks.

From the BCD Collection.

Petraios, strategos of the League, son of Themistogenes of Gyrton, was an ardent supporter of Julius Caesar (Caes., BC III, 35), and was executed by Brutus in 44 BC (Cic., Phil. 13. 33).