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Auction 24  22 May 2022
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Lot 79

Estimate: 1400 CHF
Price realized: 1900 CHF
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THESSALY. Trikka. Circa 440-400 BC. Hemidrachm (Silver, 16 mm, 2.75 g, 9 h). Youthful hero, Thessalos, nude but for cloak and petasos hanging over his shoulder, striding right, holding a band in both his hands around the head of the forepart of a bull moving right. Rev. TPI-KK-AI-O-Ν Forepart of bridled horse to right; all within incuse square. BCD II 775.6 (same reverse die). SNG Munich 186. Beautifully toned and very well-centered, an unusually fine example. Nearly extremely fine.
From a European collection and from the collections of the Rockefeller University and A. E. Mirsky, Gemini VII, 9 January 2011, 320, originally acquired prior to 1959.
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