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429, Lot: 113. Estimate $100.
Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Thessalian League. Mid-late 1st century BC. Æ Tetrachalkon or Trihemiobol (24.3mm, 17.14 g, 1h). Eubiotos and Petraios, magistrates. Head of Zeus right, wearing oak wreath / [ΘEΣΣA] ΛΩN to left and right, 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; [EY]BIOTOY above, [ΠETPAIOΣ] below. Rogers 58, fig. 11 corr. (rev. scene); BCD Thessaly I 1391; BCD II 897.1-4 corr. (laurel wreath); HGC 4, 222 corr. (laurel wreath). VF, dark brown and tan surfaces.


From the BCD Collection. Ex Rauch 22 (March 1978), lot 1061 (part of).