290, Lot: 57. Estimate $200. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Oitaioi. Circa 167-146 BC. AR Hemidrachm (15mm, 2.30 g, 1h). Lion’s head left, spear in its jaws / OITAI downward to right, ΩN downward to left, Herakles standing facing, holding club in both hands. Valassiadis 9; BCD Thessaly II 494 (same obv. die). VF, toned. Good metal.

From the BCD Collection. Ex Peus 384 (2 November 2005), lot 199; Vinchon (20 May 1959), lot 483; M. Ratto 11 (16 May 1935), lot 239; R. Ratto (4 April 1927), lot 1023; Naville-Ars Classica V (18 June 1923), lot 1764.