292, Lot: 81. Estimate $300. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 380-365 BC. AR Drachm (20mm, 5.94 g, 11h). Head of the nymph Larissa facing slightly left, wearing ampyx, pendant earring, and necklace / ΛAPIΣAIΩN in exergue, horse grazing right; bukranion below belly. L-S series 2, type B, dies O5/R-; BCD Thessaly II 298; BCD Thessaly I 1150 (same obv. die). VF, lightly toned, even porosity, small metal flaw and minor marks on reverse.

From the BCD Collection. Purchased from Spink’s, November 1997, for £650. Ex Aufhäuser 13 (7 October 1997), lot 53 (hammer of DM 575).