Further Selections from the BCD Collection

419, Lot: 76. Estimate $100. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Ainianes. Circa 350s-340s BC. AR Hemidrachm (17mm, 2.48 g, 6h). Laureate head of Zeus left / AINIANΩΝ, the hero Phemios standing right, holding petasos and drapery, preparing to hurl javelin; sideways Φ on ground line below. Liampi, Beitrag Group I; BCD Thessaly II 26; HGC 4, 38. VF, deeply toned, some minor roughness.

From the BCD Collection (purchased privately from Nomos, July 1974, for ChF 500).