CNG 96, Lot: 164. Estimate $300. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 450/40-420 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 5.88 g, 8h). Thessalos, nude but for petasos and cloak tied at neck, holding band across horns of bull leaping left / Bridled horse leaping right within incuse square. Lorber, Thessalian 52 var. (orientation of ethnic); BCD Thessaly II 173 var. (same; same obv. die). VF, toned, struck with worn dies. Very rare with this form of ethnic.

From the BCD Collection. Ex Peus 284 (9 December 1974), lot 229 (hammer DM 1225).