Sale: Nomos 3 & 4, Lot: 1131. Estimate CHF1500. Closing Date: Monday, 9 May 2011. Sold For CHF22000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 420-400 BC. Drachm (Silver, 6.07 g 3). Head of the nymph Larissa to right, wearing pendant earring and with her hair in a sakkos.
Rev. ΛΑΡΙΣΑ / Ι - Α Bridled horse prancing to right, with loose rein. Herrmann pl. IV, 10 (
same dies). Lorber 2008, pl. 43, 65. Traité IV 695, pl. CCXCVIII, 5 (
same dies) . A lovely coin, nicely toned, in good silver and on a full flan. Extremely fine.
Ex Leu 30, 28 April 1982, 99 (CHF 7250).