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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 340-335 BC. Æ (15mm, 3.29 g, 9h). Triptolemos, holding grain ear, seated right in winged chariot being drawn by two serpents / Pig standing right on mystic staff; [AΘE or EΛEYΣ above], boukranion below. Cf. Kroll 38–40; cf. HGC 4, 1725 and 1764. Red-brown and dark green surfaces. Fine.
The obverse is inspired by a statue of Triptolemos that was presumably still in its temple when Pausanias (I. 38, 6) visited Eleusis in about AD 160: “The Eleusians have a temple to Triptolemos... They say that the plain called Rharion was the first to be sown and the first to grow crops... Here is shown a threshing floor and altar. My dream forbade the description of the things within the wall of the sanctuary, and the uninitiated are of course not permitted to learn that which they are prevented from seeing.”
Closing Date and Time: 16 July 2025 at 10:26:40 ET.
All winning bids are subject to a 20% buyer’s fee.
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