379, Lot: 89. Estimate $100. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Oitaioi. Circa 344-280 BC. AR Hemidrachm (14mm, 2.21 g, 1h). Head of lion left, with spear in jaws / OITAI-ΩN, Herakles standing facing, holding club. Valassiadis 6; BCD Thessaly I 1215; BCD Thessaly II 492; HGC 4, 131. VF, deeply toned, some roughness.

From the BCD Collection (purchased from A. H. Baldwin, January 1977, for £101).