Triton XV, Lot: 180. Estimate $500. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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THESSALY, Larissa. Early to mid 4th century BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 6.05 g, 3h). Head of the nymph Larissa l. wearing drop earring, her hair raised and bound in a sakkos, border of dots / ΛΑΡΙ above, Σ-ΑΙΑ below, bridled horse, its rein trailing, galloping r., all in shallow incuse square. Traité IV, 693, pl. CCXCVIII, 2 (same dies). Near EF, nice old collection toning; the horse’s head on the edge of the flan. From the collections of Maxime Collignon and H. C. Hoskier.
Ex Vinchon 13 April 1985, 262, hammer FF 17000; E. Bourgey 5 December 1932, 158; Feuardent Frères 17 December 1919 (Collignon) 220; J. Hirsch XX (13 November 1907) Hoskier 268.