391, Lot: 145. Estimate $100. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Trikka. Circa 440-400 BC. AR Hemidrachm (16mm, 2.85 g, 2h). Thessalos, nude but for chlamys and petasos, holding band around the horns of a forepart of bull right / TP-IKK-A-ION (partially retrograde), forepart of bridled horse right; all within incuse square with rounded corners. BCD Thessaly II 775.3 var. (arrangement of ethnic; same obv. die); HGC 4, 311. VF, darkly toned.

From the BCD Collection, purchased from Brian Kritt, June 1980.