429, Lot: 257. Estimate $100. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Koinon of Thessaly. Nero. AD 54-68. Æ Tetrassarion (31.1mm, 19.82 g, 12h). Laouchos, strategos. Struck AD 66/7-67/8. ΝΕ[ΡΩΝ ΚΑΙ] ΣΑΡ ΘE[ΣΣΑΛΩΝ], laureate head right / [ΛΑ]ΟYΧΟY Σ ΤΡΑΤ ΗΓΟY, horse standing right, with reins held by Thessalia standing facing to right, holding grain ear and poppy. BCD Thessaly II 933; Burrer 44 (A15/R32–this coin cited); RPC I 1442. Near VF, dark green to black patina with tan highlights, light scratches.

From the BCD Collection, purchased from Baldwin’s, May 1970. Ex Robert Hecht Collection; T. O. Mabbott Collection (Hans M. F. Schulman, 6 June 1969), lot 749.