385, Lot: 115. Estimate $100. Sold for $95. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 460-450 BC. AR Hemidrachm (14mm, 3.05 g, 1h). The hero Thessalos, with petasos and chlamys hanging around neck, restraining forepart of bull left by band held around its head / Λ-Α / PI (retrograde), forepart of bridled horse right within incuse square. Lorber, Thessalian 13 (O8/R8); BCD Thessaly I –; BCD Thessaly II 375.2 var. (same obv. die; arrangement of ethnic); HGC 4, 460 (same obv. die as illustration). VF, toned.

From the BCD Collection (purchased from Spink, April 1984, for £250).