416, Lot: 118. Estimate $100. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 450/40-420 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 5.73 g, 3h). The hero Thessalos, with petasos and chlamys hanging around neck, restraining bull right by band held around its head / ΛΑΡI/Σ-ΑΙΑ, horse prancing right [within incuse square]. Cf. Lorber, Thessalian 51/52 (for obv. type/rev. die); BCD Thessaly II 372.1; HGC 4, 418. VF, granular patch on the horse.

From the BCD Collection.