311, Lot: 284. Estimate $300. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Pharsalos. Late 5th-mid 4th century BC. AR Drachm (20mm, 5.92 g, 3h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet with raised cheekpiece / Φ–A–P–Σ (partially retrograde), Thessalian cavalryman, holding lagobolon over shoulder, on horse prancing right; tiny TH in exergue. Lavva 82 (V42/R47); BCD Thessaly II 638 (same dies). VF, toned, scratches in obverse field.

From the BCD Collection.

While BCD’s collector ticket indicates the coin was studied by Lavva (the ticket reads “Info lost by Lavva!” in the area normally reserved for provenance), it is not clear which coin this is in her study. It may be her 81d, a BCD coin with a die axis of 3h and weight of 5.94g. Her illustration for 81 is labeled V41, but it is actually from the same die as her V42, so it seems there was some confusion as to the identification of the dies for this issue.