290, Lot: 62. Estimate $150. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Peirasia. Circa 350-300 BC. AR Obol (11mm, 0.79 g, 10h). Youthful male head left, wearing tainia / ΠEI-PA-ΣI-EΩN (retrograde), warrior advancing left, seen partly from behind, nude but for helmet, holding shield in left hand and spear in right. Pendleton O2 (O2/R2); BCD Thessaly II 505. Fine, toned, porous. Rare.

From the BCD Collection. Purchased from Gitbud & Naumann, December 2010.