Triton XVI, Lot: 341. Estimate $300. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 365-356 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 6.14 g, 1h). Late facing head type. Head of the nymph Larissa facing slightly left, hair in ampyx, wearing triple-pendant earring and plain necklace / Horse standing left, preparing to lie down; ΛAPIΣ-AIΩN below and above. Lorber, Hoard, Phase L-I; BCD Thessaly II 286 (same obv. die). Near EF, lightly toned, light double strike on reverse, small die flaw on rump of horse.

From the BCD Collection.

According to Cathy Lorber, who is preparing a die study of the late facing head drachms, this coin is from the earliest dies in the L-I phase (the first phase in the series), before the plant was added below the horse on the reverse dies.