★ A bright and attractive hemidrachm from Trikka ★

THESSALY. Trikka. Circa 440-400 BC. Hemidrachm (Silver, 16 mm, 2.85 g, 11 h). Hero, nude and with petasos and chlamys flying behind his back, running right and holding a band with both his hands passing around the head of a bull's forepart to right. Rev. ΤΡΙΚ-ΚΑ-ΙON Forepart of a horse to right; all within incuse square. BCD Thessaly II 776.2-4 var. (differing arrangement of ethnic). HGC 4, 311. Bright and attractive. Die breaks on the obverse and with an edge crack, otherwise, about extremely fine.

From a European collection, formed before 2005.