Ex Brand and Hoskier Collections

CNG 96, Lot: 226. Estimate $300. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Oitaioi. Circa 360-344 BC. AR Hemidrachm (14mm, 2.67 g, 11h). Head of a lion left, holding spear in jaws / Herakles standing facing, holding club. Valassiadis 3; BCD Thessaly II 489. Good VF, toned, slight granularity, minor die shift on reverse.

From the BCD Collection. Ex Virgil M. Brand Collection (Part 7, Sotheby’s, 25 October 1984), lot 58 (hammer £575); H. C. Hoskier Collection (J. Hirsch XX, 13 November 1907), lot 275.