370, Lot: 64. Estimate $100. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 450-430 BC. AR Hemidrachm (14mm, 2.64 g, 3h). The hero Thessalos, with petasos and chlamys hanging around neck, restraining forepart of bull right by band held around its head; flower below / ΛΑΡΙ-ΣΑ[Ι-O]Ν (retrograde), forepart of bridled horse left within incuse square. Lorber, Thessalian 28 (O16/R20); BCD Thessaly I –; BCD Thessaly II 374.1 (same dies); HGC 4, 462 (same dies as illustration). VF, Rare.

From the BCD Collection.