311, Lot: 111. Estimate $200. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 450/40-420 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 5.89 g, 6h). The hero Thessalos, nude but for petasos and chlamys, holding band around the head of a bull charging left; plants growing from ground line to left and between Thessalos’ legs, TO in exergue / ΛA–P–I–ΣAI (partially retrograde), bridled horse prancing right; all within incuse square. Lorber, Thessalian pl. 42, 42 (same dies); BCD Thessaly I 1123 (same dies). VF, toned.

From the BCD Collection.