292, Lot: 53. Estimate $300. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 450/40-420 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 6.14 g, 7h). Youthful hero Thessalos, his petasos and chlamys hanging around neck, restraining bull left by band held around its head / ΛAPIΣAI above, bridled horse prancing right; all within shallow incuse square. Lorber, Thessalian -; BCD Thessaly II -; BCD Thessaly I -; Herrmann -; Traité -; BMC -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG Lockett -; SNG Alpha Bank -; Jameson -; Weber -. VF, lightly toned, obverse die flaws at bull’s tail and hind hoof. A seemingly very rare reverse legend variety that is missing from the consulted references and from the ANS photofile.

From the BCD Collection. Ex Nihon 22 (7 March 2010), lot 55 (hammer of ¥38000).

See Triton XIV, lot 107, for a coin struck from the same obverse die in an earlier state.