428, Lot: 112. Estimate $75. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 450-430 BC. AR Hemidrachm (16mm, 2.62 g, 3h). Thessalos, nude but for petasos and cloak tied at neck, standing left, holding band across horns of bull forepart leaping left / Λ-A-P-I (P retrograde), forepart of bridled horse leaping right; all within incuse square. Lorber, Thessalian 28 (same dies); BCD Thessaly II 375.2 var. (same obv. die; rho not retrograde in ethnic); HGC 4, 457. VF, toned, granular surfaces.

From the BCD Collection.