342, Lot: 143. Estimate $150. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 450/40-420 BC. AR Drachm (16mm, 5.95 g, 12h). Thessalos left, wearing petasos and chlamys, holding band across head of bull left; branch to left, flower below / Bridled horse leaping right; ΛA/PIΣA around from upper left (PΣ retrograde); all within incuse square. Lorber,
Thessalian 41 (same dies); BCD Thessaly II 366.1 (same dies). VF, toned, some graffiti on the obverse.
From the BCD Collection. Ex Bourgey (7 November 1983), lot 52.