Sale: Nomos 3 & 4, Lot: 1132. Estimate CHF600.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 May 2011.  Sold For CHF4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 420-400 BC. Drachm (Silver, 6.00 g 2). Head of the nymph Larissa to left, wearing pendant earring and with her hair in a sakkos. Rev. ΛΑΡΙΣΑ / Ι - Α Bridled horse prancing to left, with loose rein. Herrmann pl. IV, 13 (same dies). Lorber 2008, pl. 43, 66. Traité IV 695, pl. CCXCVIII, 6 (same dies) . Of excellent style and nicely toned. Some minor scratches and marks, otherwise, nearly extremely fine.

From the collection of Paul M. Proschowsky, Rasmussen, 10 March 1970, 586 (DKR 1600).