373, Lot: 55. Estimate $150. Sold for $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 450-430 BC. AR Hemidrachm (16mm, 2.92 g, 9h). OΣ (retrograde), The hero Thessalos, with petasos and chlamys hanging around neck, restraining forepart of bull right by band held around its head / ΛA-R-I-Σ / AI, forepart of bridled horse right within incuse square. Lorber, Thessalian pl. 41, 22; BCD Thessaly I –; BCD Thessaly II 375.1; HGC 4, 458. VF, toned. Good metal.

From the Byron Schieber Collection (includes old ticket from Victor England, Ltd.).