389, Lot: 142. Estimate $75. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Skotoussa. Early 4th century BC. Æ Chalkous (12mm, 1.90 g, 6h). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion’s skin headdress / Kantharos; Σ-K across lower field. Rogers –; BCD Thessaly II 739.2; HGC 4, 620. VF, dark brown patina. Very rare.

From the BCD Collection.

A note from BCD from the Triton sale: An important coin, being the stylistic link of Skotussa with the coinages of Philotas and Derdas, thus establishing a date bracket...within the first two decades of the 4th century BC.