Further Selections from the BCD Collection

377, Lot: 25. Estimate $100. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Ainianes. Circa 350s-340s BC. AR Hemidrachm (17mm, 2.53 g, 6h). Hypata mint. Laureate head of Zeus left / AINIAN-ΩΝ, the hero Phemios standing right, holding petasos and drapery, preparing to hurl javelin; sideways Φ on ground line below. Liampi, Beitrag Group I; BCD Thessaly I 1011 var. (same obv. die; arrangement of ethnic); BCD Thessaly II 26 var. (same obv. die; same); HGC 4, 38. Good VF, minor porosity.

From the BCD Collection. Ex Sotheby’s (30 March 1995), lot 917 (part of).