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311, Lot: 83. Estimate $150.
Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Lamia. Circa 400-375 BC. AR Hemidrachm (18mm, 2.78 g, 3h). Head of young Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath / ΛAMI–EΩ–N, amphora with two handles; prochous to right; all within incuse circle. Georgiou, Mint 4; BCD Thessaly II 121. VF, old cleaning scratches under tone.


From the BCD Collection.

A note from BCD from the Triton sale: The early, compact style, Lamia hemidrachms (as well as the corresponding obols) are distinguished from the later, much commoner ones, by the direction of the head of Dionysos on the obverse. They apparently continued to circulate along with the later coins and were not withdrawn, hence their comparatively higher wear when they turn up in hoards. See also Pozzi (Boutin) 2742 for the Christodoulos forgery of this type that has successfully deceived several dealers during the last century and until quite recently (see, for instance, CNG MBS 57 [4 April 2001] 287). Interestingly, Ernest Babelon refers to the Pozzi forgery as genuine (see Traité 2, IV, 455 and footnote 7).