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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bing, post: 3847904, member: 44132&quot;]A few months ago some of you posted your Trikka examples.&nbsp; Well, I liked them enough to find one for my collection (I&#039;m supposed to be selling, not buying).&nbsp; Anyway, here is the example I purchased from our very own John Anthony.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1020243[/ATTACH] </p><p>THESSALY, TRIKKA</p><p>AR Hemidrachm</p><p>OBV: Youth, petasos and cloak tied at neck, wrestling forepart of bull right</p><p>REV: Forepart of horse galloping right; T-PI-KK-A-I around; all within concave incuse</p><p>Circa 420-400 BC</p><p>2.7g, 17mm</p><p>SNG Cop 265</p><p>ex:&nbsp; JAZ Numismatics</p><p><br /></p><p>From Wikipedia:</p><p>Trikka or Trikke, was founded around the 3rd millennium BC and took its name from the nymph Trikke, daughter of Penaeus, or according to others, daughter of the river god Asopus. The ancient city was built at a defensive location in between the local hill and the river Lithaios. The city became an important center in antiquity and it was considered to be the birthplace and main residence of the healing god Asclepius. The city exhibited one of the most important and ancient of Asclepius&#039; healing temples, called asclepieia. The city is mentioned in Homer&#039;s Iliad as having participated in the Trojan War with thirty ships under Asclepius&#039; sons Machaon and Podalirius.</p><p><br /></p><p>Quote from a previous thread by [USER=96635]@Pavlos[/USER] </p><p>&quot;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 wearing a chlamys (type of cloak) and petasos (type of 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 have learned the sport.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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