★ From the BCD Collection ★

THESSALY, Thessalian League. Mid-late 1st century BC. Stater (Silver, 24 mm, 5.50 g, 1 h), Nikokrates, Philoxenides, and Petraios, magistrates. NIKOKPATOYΣ Head of Zeus to right, wearing laurel wreath. Rev. ΘEΣΣA/ΛΩN - [Φ]IΛOΞ-ENIΔOY - ΠETPAIOΣ Athena Itonia striding right, hurling spear with her right hand and holding shield on her left arm; in field to right, palm frond. BCD Thessaly I 1388 ( same reverse die ). BCD Thessaly II 852 ( this coin ). Lightly toned and unusually attractive. The obverse struck slightly off center, otherwise, good very fine.

Ex Künker 270, 2 October 2015, 8235, from the BCD Collection, Triton XV, 3 January 2012, 852, and previously privately acquired from Spink in January 1972.