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Halos, Thessaly, Greece, c. 302 - 265 B.C.
Athamas, the mythical founder of Halos, had two children with his first wife, Nephele, Phrixus and Helle. Athamas' second wife Ino, jealous for her own two children with Athamas pretended that an oracle demanded that Phrixus and Helle must be sacrificed to Zeus. Just as the sacrifice was prepared, the cloud nymph Nephele descended and placed the children on a ram with a golden fleece given to her by Hermes. The ram flew off to safety but Helle fell off and drowned in the Hellespont, which was named for the accident. Phrixus landed in Colchis, sacrificed the ram to Zeus and hung up the fleece, where Jason would later obtain it.GB85921. Bronze dichalkon, BCD Thessaly I 1057; BCD Thessaly II 85; Reinder series 6; Rogers 241, fig. 114; SNG Cop 63; HGC 4 4 (R1), VF, well centered and struck on a tight flan, dark blue-green patina, marks, porosity, Halos (near Almyros, Greece) mint, weight 5.788g, maximum diameter 19.6mm, die axis 180o, c. 302 - 265 B.C.; obverse diademed head of Zeus right; reverse AΛEΩN (counterclockwise starting lower left), Phrixos clinging to neck and chest of the golden ram flying right, nude but for cloak billowing behind him like wings, 
(AX monogram) upper left; ex BCD Collection with his tag noting, "V. ex. Thess., May 93, DM 108.-"; rare; SOLD
(AX monogram) upper left; ex BCD Collection with his tag noting, "V. ex. Thess., May 93, DM 108.-"; rare; SOLD 
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