389, Lot: 138. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Pharsalos. Late 5th-mid 4th century BC. AR Obol (10mm, 0.89 g, 4h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet / Φ-A/P-Σ (PΣ retrograde), head and neck of horse right; all within incuse square. Lavva 136b (V64/R77 – this coin cited); BCD Thessaly II 657 (same dies); HGC 4, 641. Near VF, toned, light porosity. Rare, one of only three cited by Lavva.

From the BCD Collection.