429, Lot: 114. Estimate $75. Sold for $45. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Thessalian League. Mid-late 1st century BC. Æ Dichalkon or Obol (19.1mm, 9.47 g, 11h). Philokrates, Italos, and Petraios, magistrates. ΦIΛOKPA TOYΣ to right and left, helmeted bust of Athena right, wearing aegis around neck / ΘEΣΣA ΛΩN to right and left, Athena Itonia standing left, holding crowning Nike and resting hand upon shield; spear to inner right; ITA ΛOY above, ΠETPAI[OΣ] in exergue. Rogers 59, fig. 12 corr. (spelling of Petraios); BCD Thessaly I 1393; BCD Thessaly II 854 corr. (spelling of Philokrates); HGC 4, 227. VF, dark green to black patina with some light earthen highlights/deposits.

From the BCD Collection.