377, Lot: 217. Estimate $75. Sold for $50. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Koinon of Thessaly. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Diassarion (21mm, 5.12 g, 6h). Nikomachos, strategos. Struck circa AD 123-125. ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΝ ΚΑΙCΑΡΑ ΘЄCCΑΛΟΙ, laureate head right, with slight drapery / OX NIKO M AXOY, Minerva standing right, holding shield and preparing to hurl spear; monogram at beginning of legend. Burrer Em. 1, 30.1 corr. (A7/R26 – this coin; rectangular epsilons and chi with crossbar); cf. BCD Thessaly I 1409 (bust type, attributed as assarion); BCD Thessaly II 952.1-3; RPC III 452. Near VF, green-brown patina.

From the BCD Collection.