380, Lot: 148. Estimate $150. Sold for $401. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Pharsalos. Late 5th-mid 4th century BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 5.79 g, 3h). Helmeted head of Athena left; TH to left / Φ-A-[P-Σ] (partially retrograde), Thessalian cavalryman on horse rearing right, holding goad; T below; all within incuse square. Lavva 91b (V46/R53; this coin cited & illustrated); BCD Thessaly II 639 var. (no T); HGC 4, 624. Good VF, attractively toned, banker’s mark on the obverse.

From the BCD Collection. Ex Hess 254 (25 October 1983), lot 166.