CNG 96, Lot: 159. Estimate $200. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 450-430 BC. AR Hemidrachm (15mm, 2.92 g, 6h). Thessalos, nude but for petasos and cloak tied at neck, standing left, holding band across horns of bull forepart leaping left / Forepart of bridled horse leaping right within incuse square. Lorber, Thessalian 28 (same dies); BCD Thessaly II 375.2 var. (same obv. die; rho not retrograde in ethnic). VF, toned, granular surface, small nick at edge on reverse.

From the BCD Collection.