389, Lot: 129. Estimate $75. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Metropolis. 3rd century BC. Æ Trichalkon (20mm, 7.27 g, 5h). Laureate head of Apollo right / ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ, forepart of man-headed bull left, head reverted; monogram below. Rogers 411, fig. 220; BCD Thessaly II 483.1; HGC 4, 257. Good Fine, brown patina.

From the BCD Collection, purchased from Bank Leu, January 1975; from the old stock of Jacob Hirsch (with ticket).

A note from BCD from the Triton sale: Ptolemy III’s presence in mainland Greece has been discussed and researched but perhaps not so much from the numismatic point of view. This coin...provides us with one more aspect of the very interesting and little known influence the king’s agents had on the poleis of central Greece.