311, Lot: 279. Estimate $150. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Pharsalos. Mid 5th century BC. AR Hemidrachm (14mm, 2.89 g, 7h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet with three serpents on bowl / Φ–AR, head and neck of horse right; all within incuse square. Lavva 3g (O2/R2), pl. I, 3 ( this coin); BCD Thessaly I 1277 (same dies). VF, toned, porous.

From the BCD Collection. Ex Dorotheum Sonderauktion 2 (15 April 1983), lot 203.