292, Lot: 55. Estimate $300. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 450/40-420 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 5.94 g, 9h). Youthful hero Thessalos, his petasos and chlamys hanging around neck, restraining bull left by band held around its head / ΛAPIΣA above, IA (retrograde) below, bridled horse prancing left; all within incuse circle. Lorber, Thessalian -; BCD Thessaly II 176 (same dies; hammer of $5000). VF, darkly toned, obverse die breaks at petasos and on hero’s right thigh, minor surface corrosion on reverse.

From the BCD Collection. Purchased from Leu, January 1980, for CHF 1800. Ex Naville-Ars Classica X (15 June 1925), lot 517 (hammer of CHF 60).