290, Lot: 144. Estimate $100. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off THESSALY, Peparethos. 1st century BC. Æ Dichalkon (18mm, 2.96 g, 12h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet / Π-E/Π-A across field, grape bunch on vine. Rogers 567; BCD Thessaly II 802.3; HGC 6, 413. Near VF, brown patina, rough in areas. Very rare.

From the BCD Collection. Purchased from Baldwin’s, December 1968. Ex Lord Grantley Collection.