Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 397. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $138. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Lamia. Circa 400-344 BC. Æ 13mm (2.06 g, 6h). Helmeted head of Athena right / Philoktetes standing right, drawing bow with arrow; to right, a bird of Lemnos falling above quiver. Georgiou, Mint 16; Rogers 384 (Malia); Moustaka 41; SNG Copenhagen 87-8. VF, dark brown patina. Rare.

Lamia was the main town, and only mint, of the Maliens, a tribe that inhabited the area around the Malian Gulf.