311, Lot: 280. Estimate $200. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Pharsalos. Mid-late 5th century BC. AR Hemidrachm (14mm, 3.13 g, 1h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet with raised cheekpiece / Φ–A–P–Σ (partially retrograde), head and neck of horse right. Lavva 67a (V34/R38), pl. III, 67 (this coin); BCD Thessaly II –; BCD Thessaly I – (but cf. 1282 for somewhat similar style). VF, toned.

From the BCD Collection.