292, Lot: 77. Estimate $100. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 405/0-370 BC. AR Obol (11mm, 0.91 g, 12h). Head of the nymph Larissa facing slightly left / ΛAPIΣ above, horse grazing left; all within incuse square. BCD Thessaly II 223 (same rev. die; hammer of $2500). Near VF, toned, porous. Perhaps only the second known.

From the BCD Collection.

A note from BCD from the Triton sale: “Early facing head obols must have been struck in very limited quantities, mainly because the “horse/nymph” obols were still in circulation and readily accepted in the local markets and everywhere else.”