Watch List notes:

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 450/40-420 BC. AR Drachm (21mm, 6.10 g, 9h). The hero Thessalos, with petasos and chlamys hanging around neck, restraining bull left by band held around its head / Horse prancing left, trailing rein, within incuse circle. Lorber, Thessalian 54 var. (rev. type right; same obv. die as illustration); BCD Thessaly II 176 (same dies); HGC 4, 421 (same dies as illustration); SNG Ashmolean 3866 (same dies); Weber 2833 (same dies). Beautiful old cabinet tone, trace deposits, cleaning scratches under tone, a couple die breaks, slightly off center on reverse. EF.


Ex Berk BBS 206 (15 November 2018), lot 69.