406, Lot: 239. Estimate $150. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 450/40-420 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 5.98 g, 9h). The hero Thessalos, with petasos and chlamys hanging around neck, restraining bull right by band held around its head / ΛΑΡ-[I]ΣA, horse prancing right within incuse square. Lorber, Thessalian 53 var. (arrangement of ethnic); BCD Thessaly I –; BCD Thessaly II 372.4; HGC 4, 418. VF, toned, some light graffiti on the reverse.

From the BCD Collection.