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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Greece| > |Thessaly| > GS73422
Larissa, Thessaly, Greece, c. 440 - 400 B.C.
|Thessaly|, |Larissa,| |Thessaly,| |Greece,| |c.| |440| |-| |400| |B.C.|, During religious games, the young men of Thessaly participated in bull jumping and bull wrestling. In bull wrestling, participants would jump from a horse, naked save a chlamys and cap, to bring a bull down to the ground. The obverse shows a wrestler bringing down a bull and the reverse shows the horse running free after the leap was made. The game may have originated in Asia Minor and then traveled to Crete, where it is known the people of Thessaly learned the sport.
GS73422. Silver drachm, Lorber Thessalian 46, BCD Thessaly II 171, HGC 4 418 (S), BCD Thessaly I -, VF, well centered, obverse die wear, scrape on obverse, porous, Larissa mint, weight 5.925g, maximum diameter 19.2mm, die axis 180o, c. 440 - 400 B.C.; obverse hero Thessalos restraining bull, both right, holding band around its head, nude but for billowing chlamys tied around his neck, petasos tied around neck flying behind; reverse ΛAP/IΣAI, bridled horse galloping right, all in incuse square; ex BCD Collection with his round tag noting, "T/ne ex Thess., Feb. 87, 26500 drs."; scarce; SOLD










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