311, Lot: 282. Estimate $200. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Pharsalos. Late 5th-mid 4th century BC. AR Drachm (20mm, 5.79 g, 5h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet with raised cheekpiece; [TH–IΠ] flanking neck / Φ–A–P–Σ (partially retrograde), Thessalian cavalryman, holding lagobolon over shoulder, on horse prancing right. Lavva 98a (V49/R56), pl. V, 98 (this coin); BCD Thessaly II 639. VF, old cabinet tone, a few obverse die flaws, light corrosion.

From the BCD Collection. Ex Leu 2 (25 April 1972), lot 180; ‘Property of an Amateur’ (Sotheby’s, 1 December 1924), lot 92.