419, Lot: 85. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 450/40-420 BC. AR Drachm (16mm, 5.82 g, 6h). The hero Thessalos, with petasos and chlamys hanging around neck, restraining bull left by band held around its head; plant to left and below / ΛΑ/ΡIΣΑ (partially retrograde), horse prancing right within incuse square. Lorber, Thessalian 41 (same dies as illustration); BCD Thessaly II 366.1; HGC 4, 416. Near VF, lightly toned, some porosity.

From the BCD Collection.