404, Lot: 82. Estimate $150. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 450/40-420 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 5.82 g, 6h). The hero Thessalos, with petasos hanging around neck, restraining bull right by band held around its head; plant to left, flower below; TO in exergue / ΛΑ-P-I-ΣΑ (partially retrograde), horse rearing right within incuse square. Lorber, Thessalian 42; BCD Thessaly I 1123; BCD Thessaly II 366.1 var. (arragement of ethnic); HGC 4, 416. VF, toned, light cleaning marks, edge split.

From the BCD Collection (purchased from Leu, 17 October 1993, for ChF 200).