249, Lot: 81. Estimate $150. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Thessalian League. Circa 196-27 BC. AR Stater (22mm, 5.95 g, 1h). Pe-(?), Philoxenides, and Damothoinos, magistrates. Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath; ΠE behind(?) / Athena Itonia advancing right. McClean 4769-76, pl. 177, 16 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen -. VF, toned.

The McClean catalogue includes mention of the letter Π behind the head of Zeus on the obverse, noting that it is either a letter or a strand of hair that looks like the letter Π. On the present example it seems that there may be two letters, ΠE, or it could just be how the hair on this die was engraved.