447, Lot: 64. Estimate $150. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 450/40-420 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 6.20 g, 8h). The hero Thessalos, with petasos and chlamys hanging around neck, restraining bull left by band held around its head / Horse prancing left, trailing rein. Lorber,
Thessalian 54 var. (rev. type right; same obv. die as illustration); BCD Thessaly II 176 (same dies); HGC 4, 421 (same dies as illustration). Toned, a little off center, deposits. VF.
From the Rye Collection. Ex Coin Galleries (22 July 1992), lot 96.