434, Lot: 43. Estimate $75. Sold for $45. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Trikka. Circa 440-400 BC. AR Hemidrachm (16mm, 2.85 g, 5h). The hero Thessalos, nude but for cloak and petasos, holding a band below the horns of forepart of bull leaping right / TPI-K-KAI-ΩN, forepart of bridled horse right; all within incuse square with rounded corners. BCD Thessaly II 767 var. (ethnic); HGC 4, 311. Near VF, toned, area of weak strike on obverse, graffiti on reverse.

From the BCD Collection.