412, Lot: 126. Estimate $100. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 450/40-420 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 5.87 g, 12h). Thessalos, nude but for petasos and cloak tied at neck, holding band across horns of bull leaping left / ΛAPI/Σ-AIA, horse leaping right, trailing rein, within incuse square. Lorber,
Thessalian 52; BCD Thessaly II 174; HGC 4, 420. VF, toned, some roughness.
From the BCD Collection. Ex J. A. Spranger Collection (Sotheby’s, 12 May 1983), lot 169.