From the Knoepke, Lockett, and Pozzi Collections
Triton XX, Lot: 136. Estimate $5000. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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THESSALY, Larissa. Circa 356-342 BC. AR Stater (21mm, 11.67 g, 1h). Head of the nymph Larissa facing slightly left, hair in ampyx, wearing necklace / Bridled horse prancing right; ΛAPI-ΣAIΩN around. L-S Type 2, Series B, dies O12/R2, a = SNG Lockett 1571 = Pozzi,
Boutin 2771 = Pozzi 1219 (this coin); BCD Thessaly II 304 (same obv. die); HGC 4, 409; SNG Berry 540 (same dies). Good VF, old collection toning, granular surface.
Ex BCD Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 96, 14 May 2014), lot 199; Olga H. Knoepke Collection (Glendining's, 10 December 1986), lot 185 (hammer £2300); Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Greek Part II, Glendining, 12 February 1958), lot 1434; S. Pozzi Collection (Naville I, 14 March 1921), lot 566.