Triton XVI, Lot: 348. Estimate $500. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Magnetes. Circa 168-140 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 3.89 g, 7h). Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath; monogram to left / Artemis, holding bow in her right hand, seated left on prow left; to left, dolphin downward; star surmounting akrostolion; two monograms to right, ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ below. BCD Thessaly II 415.2 (same rev. die); SNG Copenhagen 153 (same rev. die); BMC 1 (same rev. die). VF, attractively toned, some die wear, a couple minor flan flaws on obverse.

From the BCD Collection. Ex Kölner Münzkabinett 51 (12 November 1990), lot 98.