Watch List notes:

THESSALY, Ainianes. Circa 360s-350s BC. Hemidrachm (Silver, 15mm, 2.68 g 11), Hypata. Laureate and bearded head of Zeus to left. Rev. AINIAN-ΩN The hero Phemios, nude but for a belt holding a short sword in a scabbard and a chlamys draped over his shoulders and his left arm, standing left, facing front with his head turned to right, hurling a javelin with his right hand and holding his petasos, as if it were a small shield, with his left; on the ground line between his feet, sideways F. BCD 1013 (same obverse die). Traité IV, 452, pl. CCLXXXVII, 15. Rare. Good very fine.


From a European collection, formed before 2005.