382, Lot: 41. Estimate $100. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 450/40-420 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 5.96 g, 12h). The hero Thessalos, with petasos and chlamys hanging around neck, restraining bull left by band held around its head / [Λ]ΑP / IΣΑΙΑ (
partially retrograde), bridled horse rearing right within incuse square. Lorber,
Thessalian –; BCD Thessaly I –; BCD Thessaly II – ; cf. HGC 4, 420. Near VF, banker’s mark on the obverse, some graffiti (
λπτχ) on the reverse.
From the BCD Collection.