416, Lot: 116. Estimate $100. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 460-450 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 5.44 g, 10h). The hero Thessalos, with petasos and chlamys hanging around neck, restraining bull right by band held around its head / ΛΑ/I-Я, horse prancing right within incuse square. Lorber, Thessalian 8 (same rev. die as illustration); BCD Thessaly II 355.1; HGC 4, 410. Near VF, toned, porosity, some scratches.

From the BCD Collection. Ex Sotheby’s (23 May 1988), lot 103 (part).