Watch List notes:

THESSALY, Pherai. Circa 460-440 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 5.69 g, 1h). Thessalos standing right, holding band across horns of bull right / Bridled horse jumping right; in background, water pouring from lion-headed spout to upper left; all within incuse square. BCD Thessaly II 682 (same dies). VF, toned, some light roughness, a few minor scrapes on reverse. Very rare.


From the BCD Collection. Ex Elisabeth Washburn King Collection (Christie’s New York, 11 December 1992), lot 686.