374, Lot: 197. Estimate $200. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 450/40-420 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 6.12 g, 5h). The hero Thessalos, with petasos and chlamys hanging around neck, restraining bull left by band held around its head / ΛΑPI / Σ-ΑΙΑ, bridled horse rearing right within incuse square. Lorber,
Thessalian 50; BCD Thessaly II 173; HGC 4, 420. Near EF, attractively toned, a few marks under the tone, struck with worn reverse die.
From the BCD Collection. Ex Stack’s (4 December 1984), lot 86.