THESSALY. Larissa. Circa 450/40-420 BC. Drachm (Silver, 19 mm, 5.82 g, 4 h). Thessalos striding to right, naked but for chlamys over his shoulders, his petasos attached to a cord around his neck and flying in the air behind him, holding a band with both hands around the forehead of a bull leaping right. Rev. ΛΑΡ-IΣΑΙΑ Bridled horse with trailing rein prancing right; all within shallow incuse square. Cf. BCD Thessaly II 372.3 (arrangement of ethnic); HGC 4, 418. Light crystallization, otherwise, good fine.
From the Trausnitz Collection, bought from Münzhandlung Athena on 11 January 1999.