417, Lot: 129. Estimate $100. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 450/40-420 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 5.74 g, 12h). The hero Thessalos, with petasos and chlamys hanging around neck, restraining bull left by band held around its head; plant to left and below; TO in exergue (faintly visible) / Bridled horse rearing right within incuse square. Lorber, Thessalian 41 (same dies as illustration); BCD Thessaly II 366.1 (same dies); HGC 4, 416 (same dies as illustration). VF, toned, porous.

From the W. H. Guertin Collection.