Watch List notes:

THESSALY. Larissa. Circa 400-380 BC. Drachm (Silver, 21 mm, 5.97 g, 2 h). Thessalos, with cloak and petasos over his shoulders, leaping left, both feet off the ground, holding a rushing bull by a band around its head. Rev. ΛΑΡΙ / ΣΑΙΑ Bridled horse with trailing rein galloping to right; all within shallow incuse square. BCD II 174 (same dies). Herrmann Group III H, pl. III, 21. Lorber 2008, pl. 43, 52. Beautifully toned and sharply struck. Some minor roughness and some minor marks, otherwise, extremely fine.


From a European collection and that of a European Nobleman who died in 1940.