311, Lot: 52. Estimate $100. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Herakleia Trachineia. Circa 370s BC. AR Obol (11mm, 0.77 g, 7h). Lion’s head left, with mouth closed / HPA (retrograde), club to left above ivy leaf. BCD Thessaly II –; BCD Thessaly I 1060 = Weber 2812 var. (lion’s head to right); BMC 1 = Traité IV, 447 and pl. CCLXXXVII, 10 (same obv. die?). Near VF, toned, porous. Very rare.

From the BCD Collection.