311, Lot: 224. Estimate $150. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Peirasia. Circa 350-300 BC. AR Obol (12mm, 0.84 g, 6h). Youthful male head left, wearing tainia / ΠEI–PA–ΣI–EΩN (retrograde, but mostly unclear), warrior advancing left, seen partly from behind, nude but for helmet, holding shield in left hand and spear in right. Pendleton O2a (O2/R2), pl. 3, 15 (this coin); BCD Thessaly II 505. VF, toned, granular surfaces. Very rare.

From the BCD Collection.