292, Lot: 48. Estimate $400. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 450/40-420 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 6.04 g, 6h). Youthful hero Thessalos, his petasos and chlamys hanging around neck, restraining bull left by band held around its head; branch or tree to left, small plant growing from ground line / ΛA above, PIΣA (retrograde) below, bridled horse prancing right; all within incuse square. Lorber, Thessalian pl. 42, 41 (same dies); BCD Thessaly II 366.1 (same dies). VF, toned, traces of double strike on reverse.

From the BCD Collection. Ex Burgan (11 January 1986), lot 19 (hammer of ₣6000); Glendining’s (1 September 1976), lot 18 (hammer of £170).