Ex Wilkinson, Lockett, and British Museum Collections

290, Lot: 137. Estimate $200. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Thessalian League. Mid-late 2nd century BC. AR Drachm (20mm, 4.25 g, 9h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet with griffin on bowl / ΘEΣ/ΣAΛΩN, bridled horse trotting right; monogram below. BCD Thessaly II 815; SNG Lockett 1626 (this coin). VF, dark cabinet tone.

From the BCD Collection. Ex Dr. J. S. Wilkinson Collection (Malter 49, 15 November 1992), lot 374; Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Greek Part II, Glendining, 12 February 1958), lot 1484; British Museum Duplicates (Naville V, 18 June 1923), lot 1798.