299, Lot: 23. Estimate $150. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Koinon of Thessaly. Claudius. AD 41-54. Æ Assarion (19mm, 4.50 g, 1h). Antigonos, strategos. ΘEΣΣ[AΛΩ-N] ΣEBAΣTHΩN (Ω inverted), bare head left / ANTIΓONOY [ΣTPAT]HΓOY (N’s retrograde), Asclepius standing facing, head right, leaning on serpent-entwined staff; monogram to left. Burrer Em. 1, Series 4, 94 (A23/R80); BCD Thessaly II 927.2 (same obv. die); RPC I 1437 (same dies as illustration). VF, dark brown patina, pit on head and at truncation of neck, reverse slightly off center. Scarce.

From the BCD Collection.