418, Lot: 187. Estimate $100. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Thessalian League. Mid-late 1st century BC. AR Stater (21mm, 5.29 g, 12h). Damothoinos and Philoxenides, magistrates. Head of Zeus right, wearing oak wreath / ΘΕΣΣΑ-ΛΩΝ, Athena Itonia advancing right, holding shield and preparing to hurl spear; [Δ]A-MOΘO[I]/NOY above; [ΦI]ΛOΞE[NI] in exergue. BCD Thessaly II 870.3; HGC 4, 210. VF, toned, some minor roughness on the reverse.

From the BCD Collection.

On this issue, the second half of the ethnic (ΛΩΝ) is read outwardly rather than the more usual inward reading