401, Lot: 44. Estimate $150. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 450/40-420 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 6.02 g, 9h). The hero Thessalos, with petasos and chlamys hanging around neck, restraining bull right by band held around its head / ΛΑΡ-IΣAI (partially retrograde), horse prancing right within incuse square. Lorber, Thessalian 53 var. (arrangement of ethnic); BCD Thessaly I –; BCD Thessaly II 171 var. (same); HGC 4, 418. VF, toned, light pitting on the reverse.

From the BCD Collection.