428, Lot: 131. Estimate $75. Sold for $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Trikka. Circa 440-400 BC. AR Hemidrachm (16mm, 2.80 g, 11h). The hero Thessalos, nude but for cloak and petasos, holding a band below the horns of forepart of bull leaping right / TPI-K-KAI-ΩN, forepart of bridled horse right; all within incuse square with rounded corners. BCD Thessaly II 767 var. (ethnic); HGC 4, 311. VF, toned, a few marks, some roughness on obverse.

From the BCD Collection. Ex G. Hirsch 135 (19 January 1983), lot 241.