Sale: Nomos 8, Lot: 125. Estimate CHF750. Closing Date: Monday, 21 October 2013. Bidding Closed. |
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THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 420-400 BC. Drachm (Silver, 19mm, 5.84 g 4). Head of the nymph Larissa to left, wearing pendant earring and with her hair bound with a taenia.
Rev. ΛΑΡΙΣΑΙ Bridled horse prancing to right, with loose rein. BCD II 376.6 (
this coin). BMC 48 and pl. V, 10 (
same dies). With a severely classical and beautiful head of the young nymph. Some flatness on the reverse. Very fine.
From a northern European collection and from the BCD collection, Triton XV, 3 January 2012, 376.6.