391, Lot: 137. Estimate $75. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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THESSALY, Orthe. Late 4th-early 3rd centuries BC. Æ Trichalkon (21mm, 8.45 g, 12h). Head of Athena right, wearing Corinthian helmet decorated with coiled serpent / OPΘIEIΩN, forepart of horse right, emerging from rocks on which grows an olive tree; all within wreath. Rogers 421, fig. 226; BCD Thessaly II 500; HGC 4, 697. FDC, green and reddish-brown patina.
From the BCD Collection.