CNG 94, Lot: 317. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 420-400 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 6.23 g, 5h). Thessalos, nude but for chlamys and petasos hanging from around his neck, holding a band around the head of bull rushing right, which he has nearly wrestled to the ground / Horse galloping right, reins trailing. Lorber,
Thessalian 58; BCD Thessaly I 1126 (this coin). Good VF, lightly toned.
From the Daniel Koppersmith Collection. Ex Davisssons 30 (11 October 2011), lot 44; BCD Collection (Nomos 4, 10 May 2011), lot 1126.