CNG 96, Lot: 146. Estimate $200. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 460-450 BC. AR Hemidrachm (15mm, 2.91 g, 9h). Thessalos, nude but for petasos and cloak tied at neck, standing right, holding band across horns of bull forepart leaping right / Forepart of bridled horse leaping right within incuse square. Lorber, Thessalian 13 (same dies); BCD Thessaly II 356.1 (same dies). VF, toned, slightly granular surface, a few minor marks.

From the BCD Collection. Ex Giessener Münzhandlung 12 (12 November 1978), lot 38 (hammer DM 1350).