★ Ex BCD, scarce ★
THESSALY, Gyrton (340s-320s BCE) AE Trichalkon. 18mm, 6.36g.
Obv: Laureate head of Gyrton left
Rev: ΓΥΡΤΩΝΙΩΝ, head of the nymph Gyrtone left; monogram to right.
Rogers 231; BCD Thessaly I 1054.1; cf. BCD Thessaly II 83.5-6; HGC 4, 368.
Ex CNG E-Auction 448 lot 66, from the BCD Collection (with his tag), acquired in Thessaly in 1995 for 120 CH.
A beautiful example of one of the scarcer types of Thessalian bronzes, with one of the best possible provenances.