311, Lot: 283. Estimate $400. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Pharsalos. Late 5th-mid 4th century BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 6.01 g, 4h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet with Skylla on bowl, raising hand to shade her eyes; [T]H–[MI] flanking neck / Φ–A–P–Σ (partially retrograde), Thessalian cavalryman, holding lagobolon over shoulder, on horse prancing right. Lavva 152 (V72/R55); BCD Thessaly II 642 var. (tiny MHT below horse; same obv. die); BCD Thessaly I 1288 (same rev. die). Good VF, toned, minor porosity, slight obverse die shift.

From the BCD Collection.