292, Lot: 52. Estimate $300. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 450/40-420 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 6.05 g, 12h). Youthful hero Thessalos, his petasos and chlamys hanging around neck, restraining bull right by band held around its head, the bull being nearly wrestled to the ground / ΛAPI-Σ above, AI (retrograde) below, bridled horse prancing right; all within incuse square. Lorber, Thessalian pl. 43, 58 (same dies); BCD Thessaly II 177 (same dies; hammer of $1100). VF, lightly toned.

From the BCD Collection.