315, Lot: 14. Estimate $1000. Sold for $4100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 450/40-420 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 6.01 g, 11h). Thessalos, nude but for petasos and chlamys billowing behind him, holding a band around the head of a bull left / Bridled horse prancing right within incuse square. Lorber,
Thessalian pl. 43, 52 var. (bridle falling between "ΣA" of ethnic); BCD Thessaly II 352.5. EF, lightly toned. Exceptional obverse.
Ex Christie’s (2 May 1989), lot 658.