Very Rare Silver Issue from Gyrton

290, Lot: 13. Estimate $500. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Gyrton. Circa 340s-330s BC. AR Hemidrachm (13mm, 2.76 g, 6h). Head of the nymph Gyrtone facing slightly left, hair bound in ribbon / ΓΥP below, [TΩ]NIΩN above, horse right, about to roll. BCD Thessaly II 77 (same dies; hammer of $11000). Near VF, toned, porous, reverse double struck. Very rare silver issue from Gyrton.

From the BCD Collection.