Triton XV, Lot: 132. Estimate $2000. Sold for $27500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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THESSALY, Larissa. 479/475 - circa 460 BC. AR Hemidrachm (14.5mm, 2.70 g, 2h). Head of Jason to l., wearing petasos with strings passing behind his head and fastening under his chin; border of dots / ΛΑΡΙ below, 𐌔ΑΙΟΝ from top r., l. down circular, the Α upside down, sandal of Jason l. in incuse square. Kagan,
So-called, p.85, pl. 1, 3 (this coin); Weber 2825 (this coin); De Nanteuil 837 (this coin). EF, nice old collection toning and sound metal, irregular flan. From the collections of H. de Nanteuil and Sir Hermann Weber, acquired by him from J. P. Lambros in 1889.
Ex Leu 42 (12 May 1987) 208, hammer CHF 15500; Hess - Leu [9], 2 April 1958, 155.