Roma Numismatics Ltd
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Thessaly, Thessalian League AR Stater. Mid-late 1st century BC. Petraios and Ptolemaios, magistrates. Head of Zeus right, wearing oak wreath / ΘΕΣΣΑ-ΛΩΝ, Athena Itonia advancing right, holding shield and preparing to hurl spear; ΠΕΤΡΑΙΟV above, ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΣ in exergue. BCD Thessaly II 887.2; HGC 4, 210. 5.86g, 26mm, 12h.
Good Extremely Fine; attractive cabinet tone.
Ex C. P. A. Collection;
Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Auction 78, 14 May 2008, lot 487;
Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Auction 69, 8 June 2005, lot 276.
The magistrate Petraios, who was strategos of the Thessalian League, was the son of Themistogenes of Gyrton, and was counted by Julius Caesar (Commentarii de Bello Civili, III.35) as a steadfast supporter, later executed by Brutus in 44 BC (Cicero, Philippics XIII.33).
Good Extremely Fine; attractive cabinet tone.
Ex C. P. A. Collection;
Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Auction 78, 14 May 2008, lot 487;
Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Auction 69, 8 June 2005, lot 276.
The magistrate Petraios, who was strategos of the Thessalian League, was the son of Themistogenes of Gyrton, and was counted by Julius Caesar (Commentarii de Bello Civili, III.35) as a steadfast supporter, later executed by Brutus in 44 BC (Cicero, Philippics XIII.33).