413, Lot: 22. Estimate $100. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 450/40-420 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 5.58 g, 12h). Thessalos, nude but for petasos and cloak tied at neck, holding band across horns of bull leaping left; small plant to left and below / ΛA/PIΣAI, horse leaping right, trailing rein, within incuse square. Lorber, Thessalian 41 var. (rev. legend; same obv. die as illustration); BCD Thessaly II 366.1 var. (same; same obv. die); HGC 4, 416 (same obv. die as illustration). VF, deeply toned, area of flat strike on reverse.

From the BCD Collection, purchased from A.H. Baldwin’s, November 1969.